From smyth at wehi.edu.au  Wed Jul 27 09:12:05 2005
From: smyth at wehi.edu.au (Gordon Smyth)
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:12:05 +1000
Subject: [Rd] R 2.1.1: read.table processes C-style escapes   (PR#8037)
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Thanks for the reply. Apologies for checking only R patched rather than 
R-devel.

I guess that this means that someone must have a use for allowEscapes=TRUE 
when read reading a file in table format into a data frame. It is hard to 
imagine.

Gordon

At 04:59 PM 27/07/2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>This seems of historical interest only.
>
>allowEscapes is currently (in R-devel, where development happens) an 
>argument to read.table.
>
>We do ask people to check the current version!



[Rd] R 2.1.1: read.table processes C-style escapes (PR#8037)
Gordon Smyth