[R] read in a matrix, difference between 1.3.1 (Windows) and 1.4.1 (Unix)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

# is the comment character as from 1.4.1.  There is an option to turn it
off, and that is both in the NEWS file and on the help page.

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Petra Steiner wrote:

> After I generated the data anew, I am at least sure that the number of tabs
> is ok.
> Anyway, there must be something wrong with the data, maybe a meta character:
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> The data looks like that:
> First row
>
> 	'	(	)	,	-	...	1920	1932	1939
> 1940	1945	1956	1960	1979	1982	1984	1985	1987	1988
> 1989	1990	1992	45	:	Aachen	Abb.	Abbau
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> etc. etc.
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> Next rows to the end:
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> ,#die           and by tab separated numbers
> zu#.            and by tab separated numbers
>
> maybe # is now forbidden?
> The program works for small test data.
>
> Regards,
> Petra
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> On 30 Apr 2002, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
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> > Date: 30 Apr 2002 15:38:38 +0200
> > From: Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk>
> > To: Petra Steiner <steinep at uni-muenster.de>
> > Cc: petra at uni-muenster.de, r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > Subject: Re: [R] read in a matrix,
> >      difference between 1.3.1 (Windows) and 1.4.1 (Unix)
> >
> > Petra Steiner <steinep at uni-muenster.de> writes:
> >
> > > I am reading in a matrix with ignoring the first line. With the exception of
> > > the first column (column names) each value is numeric.
> > >
> > > Up to now the following worked well, although a bit slow.
> > >
> > > tabx <-  matrix(scan("myfile", what =
> > > "", skip=1, quote = ""), byrow=T, nrow=reihenz, ncol=spaltenz)
> > > print(tabx)
> > > taby <- apply(tabx[1:reihenz,2:spaltenz], 2, as.numeric)
> > > rownames(taby) <- tabx[,1]
> > > print(taby)
> > >
> > > Now, with Version 1.4.1 under Unix, for tabx I get a table with the first line
> > > repeated many times. as.numeric is not applicable of course.
> > >
> > > Maybe read.table would be better? But I have to read a lot of data!
> >
> > An example of what your data look like would be helpful. Both for
> > helping you out and to help fix what sounds like a bug.
> >
> > --
> >    O__  ---- Peter Dalgaard             Blegdamsvej 3
> >   c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics     2200 Cph. N
> >  (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen   Denmark      Ph: (+45) 35327918
> > ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk)             FAX: (+45) 35327907
> >
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