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2011 Oct 06
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Issue with read.csv treatment of numerics enclosed in quotes (and a confession)
...es around values like the above, and reads them in as "numeric". So R strips the valuable leading zeros and converts my "00765288071" to 765288071. I've developed a work-arounds to this involving the use of the following:
> whatIneed <- "00000000000"
> whatIgot <- 765288071
> whatIgot <- as.character(whatIgot)
> substr(whatIneed, 1+nchar(whatIneed)-nchar(whatIgot), nchar(whatIneed)) <- whatIgot
> whatIneed
[1] "00765288071"
My question is, am I missing something in how I'm writing my read.csv statement that would indicate...