[Rd] R 2.1.1: read.table processes C-style escapes (PR#8037)
Gordon Smyth
smyth at wehi.edu.au
Wed Jul 27 09:12:05 CEST 2005
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!
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