[R] Bug (?) in read.fwf

[david.jessop at ubs.com]

Hi,

I'm trying to use read.fwf 

	temp = read.fwf ("Raw data.txt", widths = c (11, 21, 10, rep
(16, 6)) ,skip = 2, n = 2, stringsAsFactors = FALSE, strip.white = TRUE)

but no matter what I do the strings are turned into factors.  I believe
it's the "n=2" parameter that causes the problem as it seems to work
without this.  Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance, 

David Jessop

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