[R] read.table

[juli g. pausas]

Hi,
I have a data file with columns separated by ";"  I read this file
without any problem using read.csv2( ) but I had problems trying to read
it with read.table( ... sep=";"). So it is not a problem for me, but I
wonder if there is a bug here.

drt <- read.csv2("t.txt", header=TRUE)               # ok
dcs <- read.table("t.txt", header=TRUE, sep=";")  # wrong

R.1.5.0. on Windows

the file t.txt:

codi;long;lat;alt;prov;nom
8002;-0.65;38.72;816;A;BANYERES
8003;-0.77;38.70;592;A;BENEIXAMA
8003A;-0.78;38.70;580;A;BENEIXAMA, AGROMET
8004;-0.77;38.63;754;A;BIAR, CASA PORSELL
8005;-0.95;38.77;644;A;VILLENA, LA ENCINA
8006;-0.98;38.70;557;AB;CAUDETE, DERRAMADOR
8006I;-0.92;38.68;515;A;VILLENA, LA VEREDA
8007;-0.87;38.63;505;A;VILLENA
8009E;-0.87;38.47;560;A;MONOVER, EL ESVARADOR
8010;-0.77;38.48;562;A;PETRER
8011;-0.78;38.48;395;A;ELDA
8013;-0.77;38.38;241;A;NOVELDA
8014O;-0.97;38.42;555;A;XINORLET
8015O;-0.88;38.37;500;A;LA ROMANA, AGROMET
8018B;-0.70;38.27;86;A;ELX, CHS
8019;-0.55;38.28;31;A;ALACANT, L'ALTET
8024;-0.52;38.37;60;A;ALACANT, LA RABASA


Perphas the problem is that the last column have commas ...
So I'm not sure if this is a feature or a bug.

juli


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