On Jul 11, 2012, at 01:24 , Sarah Goslee wrote: > That is silly, but I have learned something. Thanks. > (The silliest bit was when someone decided that numeric data files should use locale-dependent conventions, notably decimal separators...)
> Though honestly, I've never seen the advantage of read.csv() over the more > versatile read.table(). It's mainly that other software likes to write such files, so it is convenient with a simple function to read them. Same thing with read.delim(). There's also a point in trying to get all settings right, especially quotes and comments can throw users off. > > Sarah > > On Tuesday, July 10, 2012, peter dalgaard wrote: > > On Jul 10, 2012, at 21:44 , Sarah Goslee wrote: > > > > But note that if sep=";" then you don't have a csv file and should > > properly use read.table() instead. > > That's not actually true. In a substantial part of the world, csv files are > semicolon separated. That's what read.csv2() is for. (Yes, it is silly, > please don't get me started...) > > -- > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Sarah Goslee > http://www.stringpage.com > http://www.sarahgoslee.com > http://www.functionaldiversity.org -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
