[R] trouble with read.table and colClasses='raw'

[jim holtman]

Why aren't you using 'save'/'load' to save a copy of the data?  Why go
through all the conversions?

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> On 12/02/2010, at 8:27 AM, Johan Jackson wrote:
>
>> "I suspect that you really don't know what 'raw' type means and haven't
>> bothered to check ?raw. It's also pretty clear that you haven't read the
>> colClasses description in ?read.table very carefully."
>>
>> Gee, thanks Peter (this is what I love about the R help boards: people whose
>> sole goal is to put others down as wittily as possible for asking *stupid
>> stupid* questions). Gives me warm fuzzies :)
>>
>> Although I admit to not being the brightest of folks around, or knowing R
>> backwards and forwards, I did read ?read.table and ?raw. But your suggestion
>> is not at all helpful Peter:
>
> Etc. etc.
>
> This sort of reaction is completely inappropriate for this list.
> Peter's answer was perfectly reasonable.
>
> If you don't like the answers you get, don't ask questions.
>
>        cheers,
>
>                Rolf Turner
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