On Dec 2, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Graham Smith wrote:
When a text file starts with a few lines commented out with # can you read those line from within R.
?readLines
read.table ignores the comments to load the file, but it would sometimes be useful to be able to read what these comments say. Thanks, Graham ______________________________________________ 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.
David Winsemius, MD Heritage Laboratories West Hartford, CT ______________________________________________ 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.
