[Rd] Set Repositories problem in R2.4.0

Peter Dalgaard p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Tue Aug 22 09:34:23 CEST 2006


Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> The point is that there is no `read.table' line in setRepositories, just 
> read.delim.  And the NEWS for R-devel (there is no 2.4.0 yet) says
> 
>     o	The functions read.csv, read.csv2, read.delim, read.delim2 now
> 	default the comment.char argument to "".  (These functions are
> 	designed to read files produced by other software, which might
> 	use the # character inside fields, but are unlikely to use it for
> 	comments.)
> 
> It needs the person who made that change to fix the consquences: thank you 
> for altering us.
      
"Altering"? (giggle)

I can't find any other cases of read.delim/csv being used to read
files with #-comments, so I'm just inserting the obvious modification
in setRepositories().

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