[R] HELP me please with import of csv to R

peter dalgaard pdalgd at gmail.com
Wed Jul 11 00:17:16 CEST 2012


On Jul 10, 2012, at 21:44 , Sarah Goslee wrote:
> 
> But note that if sep=";" then you don't have a csv file and should
> properly use read.table() instead.

That's not actually true. In a substantial part of the world, csv files are semicolon separated. That's what read.csv2() is for. (Yes, it is silly, please don't get me started...)

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