[Rd] question

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Erich Neuwirth wrote:

> here is the example
>
> this is how i read my data
>
> assign("oldfilename","d:\\documents\\wahl99\\nrw95testin.csv",envir=.GlobalEnv)
> olddata<-read.csv(oldfilename,as.is=TRUE,sep=";",header=FALSE,
> col.names=c("nr","name","wb95","abg95","glt95",
>         "sp95","vp95","fp95","gr95","lif95"))
>
>
> when i then compute
> olddata["sp95"]/olddata["wb95"]
>
> r 1.3.1 is ok,
> and r 1.4.0 says
>
> Error in FUN(left, right) : non-numeric argument to binary operator

Well, actually 1.3.1 was not behaving as documented:

   as.is: the default behavior of `read.table' is to convert
...
          numeric indices which specify which columns should be left as
          character strings.

and 1.4.0 is.  I'll revert the behaviour and correct the documentation.


The `as.is' argument has been superseded anyway by `colClasses'.

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