Aha... Hadn't noticed that stringsAsFactors only works via as.is in read.table.
Yes, the doc should probably be fixed. The code probably not -- packages
loading different data sets depending on user options is an even worse idea
than havíng the option in the first place... (I don't mean having
Hi Simon,
I have been busy with work, but I finally got around to repackaging
libiconv for AIX - in a way that both adds GNU libiconv support
(libiconv.so.2 member) and is both 32 and 64 bit without breaking
support for IBM iconv applications.
I concur that iconv is a pain as IBM and GNU mad
Dear all,
I'd like to be able to read from an arbitrary R connection (in the
sense of ?connections), which would be passed to an R function by the
user and then down into some C code via .Call.
The R API, in file R_ext/Connections.h, specifies a function,
R_ReadConnection, which takes a pointer t
Joshua,
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Cook, Malcolm wrote:
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > Sorry if I was not clear. Perhaps an example will make my point:
> >
> >> data(iris)
> >> class(iris$Species)
> > [1] "factor"
> >> write.table(iris,'data/myiris.tab')
> >> data(myiris)
> >> class(myi
Hi,
> Aha... Hadn't noticed that stringsAsFactors only works via as.is in
> read.table.
>
> Yes, the doc should probably be fixed. The code probably not
Agreed.
Is someone on-list authorized and willing to make the documentation change? I
suppose I could learn what it takes to be a "p
On 19 Feb 2016, at 16:02 , Cook, Malcolm wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Aha... Hadn't noticed that stringsAsFactors only works via as.is in
>> read.table.
>>
>> Yes, the doc should probably be fixed. The code probably not
>
> Agreed.
>
> Is someone on-list authorized and willing to make the documenta
On 18.02.2016 12:01, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
A nice default value for the `destfile` argument in download.file() would
be `basename(url)` i.e. the name of the downloaded file. This would
correspond to default behavior in many other web/ftp clients and makes code
slightly more concise:
download.f
