Re: [Rd] read.csv trap

2011-03-03 Thread Ben Bolker
Ben Bolker gmail.com> writes: > On 02/11/2011 03:37 PM, Laurent Gatto wrote: > > On 11 February 2011 19:39, Ben Bolker gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > [snip] > >> Bump. Is there any opinion about this from R-core?? Will I be scolded if I submit this as a bug ... ?? > >> What is dangerous/confu

Re: [Rd] read.csv trap

2011-02-11 Thread Ben Bolker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/2011 03:37 PM, Laurent Gatto wrote: > On 11 February 2011 19:39, Ben Bolker wrote: >> > [snip] >> >> What is dangerous/confusing is that R silently **wraps** longer lines if >> fill=TRUE (which is the default for read.csv). I encountered thi

Re: [Rd] read.csv trap

2011-02-11 Thread Laurent Gatto
On 11 February 2011 19:39, Ben Bolker wrote: > [snip] > > What is dangerous/confusing is that R silently **wraps** longer lines if > fill=TRUE (which is the default for read.csv).  I encountered this when > working with a colleague on a long, messy CSV file that had some phantom > extra fields in

Re: [Rd] read.csv trap

2011-02-11 Thread Ken.Williams
On 2/11/11 1:39 PM, "Ben Bolker" wrote: >[snip] > Original Message >Subject: read.csv trap >Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:16:36 -0500 >From: Ben Bolker >To: r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch , David Earn > > >[snip] >What is dangerous/confusing is that R silently **wraps** longer lines i

Re: [Rd] read.csv trap

2011-02-11 Thread Ben Bolker
Bump. It's been a week since I posted this to r-devel. Any thoughts/discussion? Would R-core be irritated if I submitted a bug report? cheers Ben Original Message Subject: read.csv trap Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:16:36 -0500 From: Ben Bolker To: r-de...@stat.math.