It might be a primitive question but I have a file of text and there is no separator between character on each line and the strings on each line have the same length. The format is like the following

absfjdslf
jfdldskjff
jfsldfjslk

When I read the file with read.table("myfile",colClasses = "character"), instead of putting the strings in a table of number of rows x length of string, read.table saves the file in a table of number of rows x 1 and each element seems to be a factor. Why does read.table not account for  colClasses = "character"?

thanks,

Carol
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