Daren Tan <daren76 <at> hotmail.com> writes: > I am using read.table("data.txt", sep="\t") to read in a tab-limited text file. However, two columns of > data were read wrongly. read.table converts "+" and "-" in the two columns to 0. I have tried setting other > parameters but to no avail.
Looks like http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general/112819 which was corrected by Brian Ripley a few hours after being reported. Dieter ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.