The # is the default comment character in read.table(), but that can easily be changed:
> tc <- textConnection( + "yes yes yes yes yes + yes yes yes yes yes + yes yes # yes yes" + ) > x <- read.table(tc, comment.char="") > x V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 1 yes yes yes yes yes 2 yes yes yes yes yes 3 yes yes # yes yes There's insufficient context here to know if that was actually the original problem, but is an alternate solution for what Rui proposed. Sarah On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 5:51 PM, 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 > > -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ 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.
