From giles.crane at doh.state.nj.us  Wed May 19 19:31:03 2004
From: giles.crane at doh.state.nj.us (giles.crane@doh.state.nj.us)
Date: Wed May 19 19:31:09 2004
Subject: [Rd] foreign package:  reading epiinfo (PR#6895)
Message-ID: <20040519173103.8B94A10618@slim.kubism.ku.dk>

Full_Name: Giles L. Crane
Version: 1.9
OS: Windows 98
Submission from: (NULL) (199.20.71.17)


The foreign package enables R users 
to read datasets from other software.

The read.epiinfo module works well
for most EPI6 (EPI-INFO) .REC files.
However, when the .REC file has 
an underline in column one,
read.epiinfo seems to pick this underline
and make the underline the first character
in the variable name. 

In the ASCII text .REC files, the first character
is used to indicate a how a variable
is displayed when entering data --
the first character is not part of the 
variables name.
The EPI6 variable name begins in column 2.
I think read.epiinfo could be fixed easily.

Cordially,
Giles Crane


[Rd] foreign package: reading epiinfo (PR#6895)
giles.crane@doh.state.nj.us