On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > Currently, four formats of data files are supported: > > 1. files ending '.R' or '.r' are 'source()'d in, with the R > working directory changed temporarily to the directory > containing the respective file. > > 2. files ending '.RData' or '.rda' are 'load()'ed. > > 3. files ending '.tab', '.txt' or '.TXT' are read using > 'read.table(..., header = TRUE)', and hence result in a data > frame. > > 4. files ending '.csv' or '.CSV' are read using > 'read.table(..., header = TRUE, sep = ";")', and also result > in a data frame.
As an aside, I have wondered why there is no intrinsic support for dot-tsv extension (*.tsv) that would trigger use of read.delim method. ---------------------------------------------------------- SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
