Noah Lorang noahhl
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/ R_write.table_with_dates
Created
March 22, 2011 18:53
The problem that makes write.table() not symmetric
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| #Create a data frame that includes a POSIXlt or POSIXct, write.table() to a file, and then read.table() of that file | |
| > a <- data.frame(col1 = 1:10, col2 = as.POSIXlt(Sys.time()), stringsAsFactors=F) | |
| > write.table(a, "test") | |
| > read.table("test") | |
| Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, : | |
| line 1 did not have 4 elements | |
| #Now, do the same with that data as a character instead: |
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