Dear Mike, Perhaps it's stating the obvious, but why not save the .csv file with ";" as the delimiter using the sep argument to write.csv() or write.table(), or save as a .txt file with " " as the delimiter?
Although I don't know why ";" was chosen in preference to "," for data(), I doubt that it's a bug since the behaviour corresponds to what's in ?data, as you noted. I hope this helps, John -------------------------------------- John Fox, Professor McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -----Original Message----- > From: R-package-devel [mailto:r-package-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of Mike Mehan > Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 3:29 PM > To: r-package-devel@r-project.org > Subject: [R-pkg-devel] data function from utils package > > Hi, > I'm having trouble loading a csv file from my package data directory > using the data() function. We have an external file that gets updated > every month or so that we would like to include as data in our package. > We are able to import it using the data function when it is saved as an > R Data file but when we save it as a csv file it fails. I checked the > help for data and it says that it supports csv files but it says that it > calls read.table with the separator as a semi-colon instead of a comma. > I checked the source code and it also uses a semi-colon. Is this a bug? > I would be really nice to be able to use csv files since we refresh this > file fairly often and I'd rather not have to save it as an R data file > each time. We also got it working with system.file but using data() is > much cleaner. Any suggestions? > Thanks, > Mike > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
