AW: [R] read.table problems

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> >> read.table("d:/temp/t.dat", sep=";", dec.sep=",")
> >   V1  V2
> > 1  1 2.3
> > 2  4 5.6
> 
> I am not sure we should do this.
> 
> If you are trying to read in German-format numbers, this should be
> doable by setting the locale accordingly.  Does anyone know whether
> strtod() will work this way?

Only too well, I'm afraid. AFAIR we specifically do *not* localize
LC_NUMERIC for that reason. Will also affect as.numeric(), etc., causing
general panic. Besides, we'll always have problems with not knowing
the locale in which a .csv was created.

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