[R] not supressing leading zeros when reading a table?

[alejandro munoz]

Adrian,

To prevent coercion to numeric, try:

mydata <- read.table("myfile", colClasses="character")

HTH.

alejandro
On 7/10/05, Adrian Dusa <dusa.adrian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear R list,
> 
> I have a dataset with a column which should be read as character, like this:
> 
>   name surname answer
> 1 xx   yyy     "00100"
> 2 rrr  hhh     "01"
> 
> When reading this dataset with read.table, I get
> 1 xx   yyy     100
> 2 rrr  hhh     1
> 
> The string column consists in answers to multiple choice questions, not all
> having the same number of answers. I could format the answers using formatC but
> there are over a hundred different questions in there.
> 
> I tried with quote="\"'" without any luck. Googling after this take me nowhere
> either. It should be simple but I seem to miss it...
> Can anybody point me to the right direction?
> 
> TIA,
> Adrian
> 
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