To answer your questions, French people don't have 'Vrai' and 'Faux'.
Since most of people have no idea what "csv" means, there's no use for
using "dsv"! The "Académie Française" would not be happy indeed.
But to keep on the subject, I personally never had troubles using T or
F. I sometimes use T/F, sometimes TRUE/FALSE, depending on my mood!
Looks like I should think about using TRUE/FALSE all the time, but since
I've never had problems, I don't feel bad with it!
Ivan
Le 3/9/2010 10:00, Barry Rowlingson a écrit :
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
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