use the 'comment.char' parameter of read.table Sent from my iPad
On Mar 1, 2012, at 17:51, Rui Barradas <rui1...@sapo.pt> wrote: > Hello, > >> >> The problem is that I get a the following error bacause anything after the >> # is ignored. >> >> Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, >> : >> line 6 did not have 500 elements >> >> R thinks that line 6 has only 2 elements because of the #. >> > > Use 'readLines' instead, followed by 'strsplit'. > In the example below the separator is a space. > > tc <- textConnection( > "yes yes yes yes yes > yes yes yes yes yes > yes yes # yes yes" > ) > #x <- read.table(tc) # same error: "line 3 did not have 5 elements" > x <- readLines(tc) > close(tc) > strsplit(x, " ") > > Hope this helps, > > Rui Barradas > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/read-table-issue-with-tp4436554p4436737.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
