[Rd] read.table underR2.7.0 (PR#11605)

[ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]

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Not a bug, since this was platform-specific and undocumented before.

However, the behaviour has been changed in R-patched, docunented in the 
NEWS file, discussed on R-help ....

Please do the homework the R FAQ and posting guide asks of you.

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Holger.Mitterer at mpi.nl wrote:

> L.S.,
>
> after having updated to 2.7.0, read.table seems
> to have bug. I read in a file (see a view lines
> pasted below) with:
>
> phon =
> read.table("D:/Data/underspec/FULish/exp1/analysis/phoned111_200.txt",
> header = T);
>
> the second variable, being "+" or "-" is converted into zeros (0)
> and treated as a numerical variable.
>
> Kind regards,
> Holger
>
>
> pp	type	item	target	comp	distr
>   1	-	sik.bmp	 270.52	 274.73	 495.50
>   1	+	meid.bmp	  66.33	 484.62	 540.24
>   1	+	flipper.bmp	 247.79	 453.23	 413.18
>   1	-	dood.bmp	 275.22	 359.80	 451.38
>   1	-	nat.bmp	 176.65	 531.24	 419.50
>   1	+	fauna.bmp	 200.57	 501.46	 456.97
>   1	-	daad.bmp	 174.50	 531.96	 465.20
>   1	-	sok.bmp	  46.90	 418.95	 597.41
>   1	+	flik.bmp	 230.59	 546.53	 397.22
>   1	-	noorden.bmp	 202.76	 354.77	 545.87
>   1	-	sabel.bmp	  63.98	 633.96	 444.06
> ...
>
>
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