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2010 Feb 28
6
A slight trap in read.table/read.csv.
...;,111222333,"E","2/25/1989","F"
"Mingdinkler, Melvin Queue",999888777,"01/04/1942","M"
then the read functions correctly interpret the last field
as being character.
The translation of "F" into FALSE resulted in some mysterious
contretemps in further analysis, which it took me a while to
track down.
I solved the problem by putting in a colClasses argument in my
call to read.csv(). But I really think that the read functions
are being too clever by half here. If field entries are surrounded
by quotes, shouldn't they be left as...
2016 Mar 06
2
Problem installing R-devel dated 4 March 2016.
Thanks Peter. I tried running the uninstalled R; it worked. I checked
on the existence of FAQ, etc. --- yep everything was there. I don't
know about over-zealous virus checkers; I haven't overtly installed any
such.
So, mystified, I started all over again from scratch. This time it
worked; seamlessly.
Totally mysterious. Story of my life. Be that as it were, all systems
are go