Summary: [R] read.table on Mac OS X, CARBON vs. DARWIN

David R. Bickel dbickel at mail.mcg.edu
Mon Feb 25 16:45:47 CET 2002


Thank you for all your help. What is the URL for getting on the 
R-mac-sig list?

On Saturday, February 23, 2002, at 02:18 X, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:

> It won't fix the stack-imbalance bug, but upgrading to 1.4.1 will, as I
> originally pointed out. However, as.is=FALSE was superseded by better
> facilities in read.table in 1.4.0. (It will help with the slowness, but 
> the
> solution described is not as good as the one in 1.4.1.  Not that 
> slowness
> is a `bug'.)
>
> All this has been discussed on R-help a few weeks ago, and it feels 
> like we
> are being asked to re-live the past.  Workarounds are in the archives,
> several times.  I won't repeat them here as the real answer is to 
> upgrade
> to 1.4.1, and that *is* available for Darwin.  So can this discussion be
> moved to R-mac-sig, as it seems a Mac-specific issue of how to install
> 1.4.1?
>
>
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, David R. Bickel wrote:
>
>> Adding that line didn't work for me. I get the same problem as before
>> (version 1.4.0):
>
> [Using read.table with as.is=FALSE ...]
>
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