[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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