Specifying colClasses in the read.csv

Question

I am trying to specify the colClasses options in the read.csv function in R. In my data, the first column \"time\" is basically a character vector

Answer 1

I know OP asked about the utils::read.csv function, but let me provide an answer for these that come here searching how to do it using readr::read_csv from the tidyverse.

read_csv ("test.csv", col_names=FALSE, col_types = cols (.default = "c", time = "i"))

This should set the default type for all columns as character, while time would be parsed as integer.