[R] read.table

[jim holtman]

Use colClasses to specify that the column is character so you don't
lose any significance.  You are close to the 15 digits of significance
for a floating point number.

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Santosh Srinivas
<santosh.srinivas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Group,
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> I am having a strange problem for this simple task.
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> I am using read.table to read a plan 3 column CSV file . the file is getting
> read .
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> But the first column has datetime in the csv file in the following format:
> 20110221.114041
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> But this is being read as 20110221 only . the time portion (decimal is
> missing) in the data frame
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> Any idea why?
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> Thanks,
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> Santosh
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Jim Holtman
Data Munger Guru

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