Full_Name: Emmanuel Paradis
Version: 2.1.1
OS: Linux
Submission from: (NULL) (193.49.41.105)
read.fwf(..., header = TRUE) does not work properly since:
1/ the original header is printed on the console and not in FILE;
2/ the different 'parts' of the header should be separated with tabs
to work with the call to read.table.
Here is a suggested fix for src/library/utils/R/read.fwf.R:
38c38,40
< cat(FILE, headerline, "\n")
---
> headerline <- unlist(strsplit(headerline, " {1,}"))
> headerline <- paste(headerline, collapse = "\t")
> cat(file = FILE, headerline, "\n")
PS: my R is not updated by read.fwf.R does not seem to have been changed in R
2.2.0.
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