That's one of the things I tried, but which didn't work. I get the following
error when I do that:
Error in read.table(file = "don.5.clusters.txt", header = TRUE, comment.char
= "", :
more columns than column names
If I remove the hashes by other means, I don't get that error.
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 26/10/2010 10:33 AM, Donald Braman wrote:
>
>> I'm importing a lot of text tables of data (from Latent Gold) that
>> includes
>> hashes in some of the column names ("Cluster#1", "Cluster#2", etc.). Is
>> there an easy way to strip the offending hashes out before pushing the
>> text
>> into a table or data frame? I thought I'd use gsub, e.g., but can't
>> figure
>> out how to read in a text file without reading it into a table or data
>> frame
>> (which would be ill structured, given the hashes). I could do it in
>> another
>> scripting language or shell script, but would like to try to do it in R.
>>
>
> readLines() will read it, but you may not need to do that. Set
> comment.char="" to turn off the special meaning of # in read.table() and
> related functions.
>
> Duncan
>
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