[R] Bug (?) in read.fwf

[jim holtman]

have you tried  "as.is=TRUE"

On Nov 8, 2007 6:20 AM,  <david.jessop at ubs.com> wrote:
> 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)
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> 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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