If read.csv's colClasses= argument is NOT used then read.csv accepts double quoted numerics:
1: > read.csv(stdin()) 0: A,B 1: "1",1 2: "2",2 3: A B 1 1 1 2 2 2 However, if colClasses is used then it seems that it does not: > read.csv(stdin(), colClasses = "numeric") 0: A,B 1: "1",1 2: "2",2 3: Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, : scan() expected 'a real', got '"1"' Is this really intended? I would have expected that a csv file in which each field is surrounded with double quotes is acceptable in both cases. This may be documented as is yet seems undesirable from both a consistency viewpoint and the viewpoint that it should be possible to double quote fields in a csv file. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
