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2010 Feb 28
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A slight trap in read.table/read.csv.
I had occasion recently to read in a one-line *.csv file that
looked like:
"CandidateName","NSN","Ethnicity","dob","gender"
"Smith, Mary Jane",111222333,"E","2/25/1989","F"
That "F" (for female) in the last field got transformed to
FALSE. Apparently read.csv (and hence read.table) are inferr...