That is silly, but I have learned something. Thanks.

Though honestly, I've never seen the advantage of read.csv() over the more
versatile read.table().

Sarah

On Tuesday, July 10, 2012, peter dalgaard wrote:

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> > But note that if sep=";" then you don't have a csv file and should
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> That's not actually true. In a substantial part of the world, csv files
> are semicolon separated. That's what read.csv2() is for. (Yes, it is silly,
> please don't get me started...)
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