title: Read data in form '1.4523e-9'
body: <p>I'm trying to read data from a <code>*.txt</code> or <code>*.csv</code> file into R with <code>read.table</code> or <code>read.csv</code>. However, my data is written as <em>e.g.</em> <code>1.4523e-9</code> in the file denoting <code>1.4523*10^{-9}</code> though ggplot recognizes this as a string instead of a real. Is there some sort of <code>eval( )</code>-function to convert this to its correct value ?</p>