[Rd] suggestion for read.table

[Benjamin Tyner]

Correction: the warning would be triggered by

warning("cols = ", cols, " != length(data) = ", length(data), domain = NA)

Ben

On 9/20/07, Benjamin Tyner <btyner at gmail.com> wrote:
> R-devel,
>
> IMHO, in readtable.R, the scan command
>
>
> if (nlines > 1)
>             for (i in seq_along(col))
>                 col[i] <- length(scan(file, what = "", sep = sep,
>                                       quote = quote,
>                                       nlines = 1, quiet = TRUE, skip = 0,
>                                       strip.white = strip.white,
>                                       blank.lines.skip = blank.lines.skip,
>                                       comment.char = comment.char,
>                                       allowEscapes = allowEscapes))
>         cols <- max(col1, col)
>
>
> should have fill = fill added. Otherwise, when fill = TRUE, it is
> possible for the warning
>
> warning("header and 'col.names' are of different lengths")
>
> to be inadvertantly triggered further down.
>
> Ben
>