[Rd] "NA" vs. NA

[Adrian Dusa]

Hi Ted,

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 14:22, Ted Harding <Ted.Harding at wlandres.net> wrote:
> On 05-Apr-2012 11:03:15 Adrian Dusa wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Hi Adrian,
> The default in read.table() for the "na.strings" parameter is
>
>  na.strings = "NA"
>
> So, provided you have no "NA" in the data portion of your file
> (or e.g. any missing values are simply blank) you could use
> something like:
>
> read.table(zfile, header = TRUE, as.is = FALSE, na.strings="OOPS")

Sure, that solves the problem on reading the data from R, but the
point was it "creates problems on using this data within a package".

The error is thrown by:
R CMD check --as-cran /path/to/my/package

(and I have no direct control over it...)

Best,
Adrian

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