read.table
Specify custom Date format for colClasses argument in read.table/read.csv
You can write your own function that accepts a string and converts it to a Date using the format you want, then use the setAs to set it as an as method. Then you can use your function as part of the colClasses. Try: setAs(“character”,”myDate”, function(from) as.Date(from, format=”%d/%m/%Y”) ) tmp <- c(“1, 15/08/2008”, “2, 23/05/2010”) … Read more
read.csv warning ‘EOF within quoted string’ prevents complete reading of file
You need to disable quoting. cit <- read.csv(“citations.CSV”, quote = “”, row.names = NULL, stringsAsFactors = FALSE) str(cit) ## ‘data.frame’: 112543 obs. of 13 variables: ## $ row.names : chr “10.2307/675394” “10.2307/30007362” “10.2307/4254931” “10.2307/20537934” … ## $ id : chr “10.2307/675394\t” “10.2307/30007362\t” “10.2307/4254931\t” “10.2307/20537934\t” … ## $ doi : chr “Archaeological Inference and Inductive Confirmation\t” … Read more