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2002 Apr 23
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Bug in read.table() (PR#1477)
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> convert to "logical, integer, numeric or complex" in that
> order (first one that is successful wins). You have some ids
> like 21428-2 which type.convert doesn't like as numeric but
> will treat as complex. This in turn is due to R's hand-rolled
> "strtoc" function, which returns 0+0i for something it
> doesn't like. This is a valid value, so the conversion
> "works", and all values are converted this way...
>
> You or I should probably alert the R people. That's not very
> good behavior.
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