Please, how do you define a "blank" value?
The following works perfectly for me:
File looks like:
SpaceTabSpace
1Tab2
R> read.table(file, sep="\t")
V1 V2
1 NA NA
2 1 2
Uwe Ligges
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> Full_Name: Miguel Andrade
> Version: 2.3.1
> OS: Linux
> Submission from: (NULL) (213.63.192.244)
>
>
> $platform
> [1] "i486-pc-linux-gnu"
> $arch
> [1] "i486"
> $os
> [1] "linux-gnu"
> $system
> [1] "i486, linux-gnu"
> $status
> [1] ""
> $major
> [1] "2"
> $minor
> [1] "3.1"
> $year
> [1] "2006"
> $month
> [1] "06"
> $day
> [1] "01"
> $`svn rev`
> [1] "38247"
> $language
> [1] "R"
> $version.string
> [1] "Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)"
>
>
> Description:
>
> When importing data with like read.table("data.csv",blank.lines.skip = FALSE)
> Gives an error if first line is blank: "Empty beginning of file"
>
> This is not wanted, as the case someone needs to fill a blank value as a first
> case. This is useful to import data to a variable in a dataset. If first line
> is
> not blank, then it behaves normally.
>
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