[Rd] Please make Pre-3.1 read.csv (type.convert) behavior available

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 26/04/2014, 12:23 AM, Tom Kraljevic wrote:
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> Hi,
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> We at 0xdata use Java and R together, and the new behavior for read.csv has
> made R unable to read the output of Java’s Double.toString().

It may be less convenient, but it's certainly not "unable".  Use colClasses.


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> This, needless to say, is disruptive for us.  (Actually, it was downright shocking.)

It wouldn't have been a shock if you had tested pre-release versions. 
Commercial users of R should be contributing to its development, and 
that's a really easy way to do so.

Duncan Murdoch

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> +1 for restoring old behavior.