title: R: Importing read.csv with numeric format
body: <p>Reading CSV data with R, in column 11 have data in the formats "1,022.00" and "516.00" and they must be "numerics" or "double"</p>
  
  <pre><code>dados201702 &lt;- read.csv("dataset.csv", 
                          header = TRUE, 
                          sep = "\t", 
                          dec = ".",
                          colClasses = c("character", 
                                         "character", 
                                         "character", 
                                         "character", 
                                         "character", 
                                         "character", 
                                         "character", 
                                         "character", 
                                         "character", 
                                         "character", 
                                         "numeric",
                                         "character"))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to import column 11 as numeric or double however error occurs:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Error in scan(file = file, what = what, sep = sep, quote = quote, dec
    = dec, scan() expected 'a real', got '1,022.00'</p>
  </blockquote>