[Rd] read.fwf only reads one "buffersize" of lines when reading multiline records (PR#8951)

Full_Name: David Hugh-Jones Version: 2.3.0 OS: Windows Submission from: (NULL) (155.245.34.194) Here's a test case: tf = tempfile() cat(file=tf, rep("123", 100), sep="\n") # this gives a data frame with 100 rows read.fwf(tf, widths=c(1,2), buffersize=10) # but this only gives 5 rows! read.fwf(t

[Rd] PR#6614

I agree with the submitter that this needs some kind of solution. Although data.frame[,-12] works, how do I drop a named column (the most common use case)? (I found this bug while searching for an answer.) cheers David __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing l