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Hello, all. I ran across an odd problem while working in R 2.6.0. The command line text follows. Basically, I attempted to convert a character vector of length 13 (in a data frame with 13 rows) from a character representation of dates to a POSIX representation using strptime. strptime returned a vector of length 9, which appears to contain 13 values (!) in the appropriate format. I can't

Good day, all. I just upgraded to R 2.6.0. I re-installed my most-used packages including RODBC to be sure I'm up-to-date. I have been working with a large insurance claims dataset stored in a MS-Access database on a Windows machine. I have been regularly exporting tables from R into it using sqlSave. It's worked like a charm until today, when this happened: >

Hello, all. I am working on a project with a large (~350Mb, about 5800 rows) insurance claims dataset. It was supplied in a tilde(~)-delimited format. I imported it into a data frame in R by setting memory.limit to maximum (4Gb) for my computer and using read.table. The resulting data frame had 10 bad rows. The errors appear due to read.table missing delimiter characters, with multiple data