R devel - Jun 2004 - suggestion for ?read.table

Dear R-devel,

May I suggest the following, or something to its effect (taken from the R
Data Import Export manual, item #8 in section 2.1) be added to the
colClasses argument in ?read.table:

Note that colClasses and as.is are specified per column, not per variable,
and so
include the column of row names (if any).

Thanks!
Andy

Thanks, I have added this.

Not that, as a recent posting on R-help shows, some people will read it 
...


On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Liaw, Andy wrote:
> Dear R-devel,
> 
> May I suggest the following, or something to its effect (taken from the R
> Data Import Export manual, item #8 in section 2.1) be added to the
> colClasses argument in ?read.table:
> 
> Note that colClasses and as.is are specified per column, not per variable,
> and so
> include the column of row names (if any).

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