[R] What is the difference between read.delim and read.delim2?

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Sat Sep 5 11:25:41 CEST 2009


In some countries a decimal comma is the norm.

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 6:16 PM, David Winsemius<dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
> It's pretty subtle, I will admit, but look more carefully at the dec=
> parameter in the help page. Kind of like the historical battles between
> between the Liebnizians and the Newtonians.
>
> On Sep 4, 2009, at 5:58 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't see what the difference between read.delim and read.delim2
>> after reading the help. Can somebody let me know what it is?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Peng
>>
>
>
> David Winsemius, MD
> Heritage Laboratories
> West Hartford, CT
>
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