[R] Bug (?) in read.fwf

[david.jessop at ubs.com]

Jim,

That works - thank you; but still doesn't explain why stringsAsFactors
doesn't seem to have an effect. 

Regards,

David
 

-----Original Message-----
From: jim holtman [mailto:jholtman at gmail.com] 
Sent: 08 November 2007 13:41
To: Jessop, David
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Bug (?) in read.fwf

have you tried  "as.is=TRUE"

On Nov 8, 2007 6:20 AM,  <david.jessop at ubs.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use read.fwf
>
>        temp = read.fwf ("Raw data.txt", widths = c (11, 21, 10, rep 
> (16, 6)) ,skip = 2, n = 2, stringsAsFactors = FALSE, strip.white = 
> TRUE)
>
> but no matter what I do the strings are turned into factors.  I 
> believe it's the "n=2" parameter that causes the problem as it seems 
> to work without this.  Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> David Jessop
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