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...was easy to experiment with its source code, as it all worked just fine when run at the top level or from inside any other package. In R 3.1.0, that is no longer true. The read.table() source ONLY works when run from inside the "utils" package. The (only) culprit is this: .External(C_readtablehead, file, 1L, comment.char, blank.lines.skip, quote, sep, skipNul) Older versions of read.table() instead did this, which ran fine from any package; this entry point no longer exists: .Internal(readTableHead(file, nlines, comment.char, blank.lines.skip, quote, sep)) The C implementation of readT...

I?ve been struggling with seemingly ?corrupt? data.frames for a few days, and believe I?ve narrowed the problem down to some odd behaviour from read.table I receive a tab delimited file from an external provider where strings are encoded as =?content?. Not sure why, perhaps as most users open it in Excel. My specific issue is that trailing spaces in any of the strings are causing strange results