Thanks Daniel. Appreciate your info.
- G.V.
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Daniel Folkinshteyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> according to the helpfile, comment only takes one character, so you'll have
> to do some 'magic' :)
>
> i'd suggest to first run mydata through sed, and replace one of the
according to the helpfile, comment only takes one character, so you'll
have to do some 'magic' :)
i'd suggest to first run mydata through sed, and replace one of the
comment chars with another, then run read.table with the one comment
char that remains.
sed -e 's/^\^/!/' mydata.txt > mydata2
Hi all,
Suppose I want to read a text file with read.table.
It containt lines to be skipped that begins with "!" and "^".
Is there a way to include this two values in the read.table function?
I tried this but doesn't seem to work.
dat <- read.table("mydata.txt", comment.char = c("!","^") , na.st
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