[BioC] Scan not respecting what

[Martin Morgan]

  On 8/25/2010 9:21 PM, Gaston Fiore wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> By some (strange to me) reason, scan isn't respecting the what argument:
>
>> temp<- scan(file = "~/data/WT/NS20WTR1ChrReadsF.txt", what = 'integer', sep = ",", quote = 'NULL', comment.char = "")
> Read 26042606 items
>> class(temp)
> [1] "character"
>> typeof(temp)
> [1] "character"
>
> I'm new to R, and I apologize if the mistake is obvious, but could someone explain to me why this is the case?
Hi Gaston --

The 'what' argument is an instance of the data type to be parsed, so 
what=integer() or what=1.

Hope that helps.

Martin
> Thanks a lot,
>
> -Gaston
>
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