From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue Jun 29 22:34:39 2004
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Tue Jun 29 22:34:42 2004
Subject: [Rd] suggestion for ?read.table
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Thanks, I have added this.

Not that, as a recent posting on R-help shows, some people will read it 
...


On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Liaw, Andy wrote:

> Dear R-devel,
> 
> May I suggest the following, or something to its effect (taken from the R
> Data Import Export manual, item #8 in section 2.1) be added to the
> colClasses argument in ?read.table:
> 
> Note that colClasses and as.is are specified per column, not per variable,
> and so
> include the column of row names (if any).


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[Rd] suggestion for ?read.table
Prof Brian Ripley