[Rd] possible bug in 'scan'

[Greg Snow]

The what argument looks at what the elements are, not the word they say.
Try this:

> tmp <- scan("C:/temp.csv",
>             what=list("",0),
>             sep=",")

Hope this helps,

-- 
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at intermountainmail.org
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org 
> [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin Tyner
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 9:59 AM
> To: r-devel at r-project.org
> Subject: [Rd] possible bug in 'scan'
> 
> R-devel,
> 
> When I run the following code on the attached file,
> 
> tmp <- scan("C:/temp.csv",
>             what=list("character","numeric"),
>             sep=",")
> 
> Then tmp[[2]] is a character vector. My impression from the 
> help file is that it should be a numeric as specified by 'what'
> 
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23)
> i386-pc-mingw32
> 
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"
> "methods"   "base"
> 
> other attached packages:
>  lattice    gdata
> "0.15-5"  "2.3.1"
> 
> My apologies if this is due to my misunderstanding.
> Ben
>