Hello,

Is there an easy way to read a csv file with numeric values that contain
thousands seperators. The file looks like this:

Date;opening;High;Low;closing;Volume
12/02/08;4,764.95;4,897.62;4,729.13;4,895.31;-
13/02/08;4,868.02;4,927.81;4,833.85;4,898.60;-
14/02/08;4,942.18;4,962.43;4,877.88;4,895.99;-

I want to get the numeric values as..., well, numeric values, and not as
character strings.

I tried read.csv() with the colClasses parameter but that does not help and
it looks like read.csv() does not support the big.mark="," parameter.

Thanks,

-Mark-

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