[Rd] read.table and strip.white

[Prof Brian Ripley]

>Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 09:11:38 +0200
>From: Uwe Ligges <ligges@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
>
>There is also a little bug in the "windows help" to read.table(.):
>
>Usage
>read.table(file, header = FALSE, sep = "", dec = ".", quote = "'",
>                                                              ^^^ must
>be: "\"'"
>and both of
>read.csv(file, header = TRUE, sep = ",", quote="", 
>
>read.csv2(file, header = TRUE, sep = ";", quote="", dec=",", 
>
>                                                ^^ must be: "\""
>
>Looks like a general problem with a backslashes in "winhelp" (?).

Which system of help, and if text help which pager?  (I'm not
on Windows here to check, but the text file looks fine on Unix. My
guess is that this a pager bug.)

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