On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Patrick Connolly <p_conno...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> If you use ESS, you have the benefit of completions. Depending on > what else could begin with T or F, you can press the TAB key after > typing the first letter or two. Admittedly, three keystrokes isn't > much shorter than TRUE -- but they are all with the left hand. You > always get at least a 40% discount with FALSE. :-) -- except in the > 'unlikely event' that you have objects named FALLOW or something > else a lot like FALSE. "FALSETTO"? Anyone analysing choral music in R? I'd somehow got the impression that T and F were going to be removed as values, but there's no mention of it in ?FALSE. The package check utilities warn you if you use them. Just looking at the source for the underlying cause of the read.csv behaviour, which is type.convert in R which is do_typecvt in C, and it admits: /* This is a horrible hack There's a couple of instances of: if (strcmp(s, "F") == 0 || strcmp(s, "FALSE") which are what do it. And are obviously not language-dependent - do French people have 'VRAI' and 'FAUX' in their CSV files? Do they call them DSV files: http://translate.google.com/#en|fr|comma-separated%20file Got to keep the Academie Francaise happy... Barry -- blog: http://geospaced.blogspot.com/ web: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings web: http://www.rowlingson.com/ twitter: http://twitter.com/geospacedman pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacedman ______________________________________________ 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.
