[Rd] possible bug in 'scan'
Dan Davison
davison at stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue Jun 26 18:24:37 CEST 2007
Hi Ben,
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 11:58:35AM -0400, Benjamin Tyner wrote:
> R-devel,
>
> When I run the following code on the attached file,
>
> tmp <- scan("C:/temp.csv",
> what=list("character","numeric"),
> sep=",")
>
> Then tmp[[2]] is a character vector. My impression from the help file
> is that it should be a numeric as specified by 'what'
?scan says
[...]
what: the type of 'what' gives the type of data to be read.
[...]
so for example
what=list(character(), numeric())
would presumably have worked, but not your code, as both of your list elements are of type character.
Dan
>
> >sessionInfo()
> R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets"
> "methods" "base"
>
> other attached packages:
> lattice gdata
> "0.15-5" "2.3.1"
>
> My apologies if this is due to my misunderstanding.
> Ben
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