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

Adrian Dusa dusa.adrian at gmail.com
Sun Jul 10 22:47:01 CEST 2005


On 7/10/05, alejandro munoz <guerinche at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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,
> [...snip...]

Thank you all, I got it. 
This is my favourite super fast ever helpful help list (gosh, I didn't
even expect an answer Sundays at 10 pm! ).
Best,
Adrian




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