Importing csv file into R - numeric values read as characters

Question

I am aware that there are similar questions on this site, however, none of them seem to answer my question sufficiently.

This is what I have done so far:

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Answer 1

I had a similar problem. Based on Joshua's premise that excel was the problem I looked at it and found that the numbers were formatted with commas between every third digit. Reformatting without commas fixed the problem.