[R] read a file of text with read.table

[Rolf Turner]

On 26/06/14 20:47, Frede Aakmann Tøgersen wrote:
> Hi
>
> Actually I had to read the man before answering Carol. Here it goes:
>
> stringsAsFactors: logical: should character vectors be converted to
>            factors?  Note that this is overridden by 'as.is' and
>            'colClasses', both of which allow finer control.
>
> So setting colClasses should work.

<SNIP>

You are absolutely correct; setting colClasses *should* work.  So either 
Carol has done something strange about which she is not telling us, or 
the paranoids ***really are*** out to get her! :-)

cheers,

Rolf Turner