[Rd] paste() retains quotes (PR#13304)

2008-11-19 Thread gilescrane
Full_Name: Giles L Crane Version: 2.8.0 2008-10-20 OS: Windows XP Submission from: (NULL) (71.168.215.186) paste(rep(" ",10),sep="") [1] " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " As I read the documentation for paste(), this should have produced " " that is, all spaces pasted together.

[Rd] foreign package: read.epiinfo() (PR#12645)

2008-08-31 Thread gilescrane
Full_Name: Giles L. Crane Version: 2.7.2 OS: WIndows XP Submission from: (NULL) (96.248.112.112) In the foreign package, read.epiinfo() mistakenly reads the first character of the heading lines as part of the variable name. This first character of the heading lines which define the variables

[Rd] Suggestion for read.table()

2006-08-30 Thread gilescrane
First, I compliment you all for such a useful project as R. Suggestion: If read.table() could take input from a character string, then one could write raw= " x y z 1 2 3 4 5 6 " df = read.table(raw,head=TRUE) Of course, one can cat() to write raw into a temporary file, and read