The point is that there is no `read.table' line in setRepositories, just
read.delim. And the NEWS for R-devel (there is no 2.4.0 yet) says
o The functions read.csv, read.csv2, read.delim, read.delim2 now
default the comment.char argument to "". (These functions are
designed to read files produced by other software, which might
use the # character inside fields, but are unlikely to use it for
comments.)
It needs the person who made that change to fix the consquences: thank you
for altering us.
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Keith Satterley wrote:
> In R2.4.0 when I select Set Repositories from the menu I get
> > setRepositories()
> Error in read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote, :
> more columns than column names
> The reposotories file is as installed.
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.4.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-08-14 r38872)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "methods" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets"
> "base"
> >
>
>
> In R2.3.1 it works fine.
>
>
> On checking the code for setRepositories in 2.3.1 and 2.4.0, it is identical.
> With Identical repositories files I still get the error in 2.4.0.
> If I insert comment.char="#" in the read.table line 2.4.0 code works. See
> copy
> of screen output below:
>
> > p <- file.path(R.home("etc"), "repositories")
> > p
> [1] "C:\\R\\R-2.4.0/etc/repositories"
> > a <- read.delim(p, header = TRUE, colClasses = c(rep("character",3),
> rep("logical", 4)))
> Error in read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote, :
> more columns than column names
> > a <- read.delim(p, header = TRUE, colClasses = c(rep("character",3),
> rep("logical", 4)),comment.char="#")
> > a
> menu_name URL default source
> win.binary mac.binary
> CRAN CRAN @CRAN@ TRUE TRUE
> TRUE TRUE
> CRANextra CRAN (extras) http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin TRUE FALSE
> TRUE FALSE
> BioC Bioconductor http://www.bioconductor.org FALSE TRUE
> TRUE FALSE
> Omegahat Omegahat http://www.omegahat.org/R FALSE TRUE
> TRUE FALSE
> >
>
> Did I hear that there was a bug in read.table in R2.4.0?
> Is this comment.char parameter the correct solution?
>
> cheers,
>
> Keith
>
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