On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Gordon Smyth wrote: > Thanks for the reply. Apologies for checking only R patched rather than > R-devel. > > I guess that this means that someone must have a use for allowEscapes=TRUE > when read reading a file in table format into a data frame. It is hard to > imagine.
Octal and hex escapes are a common way to cope with different encodings. I would not want R limited by the imagination of a single user, let alone a Windows-only user. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
