[R] Reading characters using read.table()

[Laurent Gautier]

Did you try the function 'scan' ?


Hopin' it helps,


Laurent





On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 12:17:46PM +0200, Florent BATY wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I need to read a vector containing names of different variables from a 
> text file (a unique column). Among them one is called "T". When I use 
> the function read.table with default arguments and when I call the 
> element of the data frame corresponding to name of this variable it 
> returns me the logical value "TRUE" whereas I was expected it to return 
> the character "T".
> Is it possible to specify the type data expected in a data frame when 
> using the read.table function in order to make it unable to interpret 
> "T" as "True" ?? Or is there any other functions enabling to import text 
> data from a text file ??
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Florent
> 
> 
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