Why would R intentionally wrap a table at an arbitrary column?

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> I'm in over my head here, but hope that my curiosity hasn't been too
> noisy.
>

Me too.  Unless someone who is familiar with the motivations and design
decisions behind R's read.table function, I'm inclined to leave the
current Org-mode code as is.

Thanks,

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Eric Schulte
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