read.table ignores first 5 lines (PR#1885)
ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:46:58 +0100 (BST)
On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Russ Lenth wrote:
> This is informative; thanks. Following Prof. Ripley's comment, I confirmed that
> a command like:
>
> read.table (textConnection(readLines()), head=T)
>
> ALMOST works for my purposes. On our HP-UX installation of R 1.5, I can enter
> (or paste) the data, then press Ctrl-D, and I've got what I want. Under
> Windows, however, I could not find a way to signal the end of the file (I tried
> Ctrl-Z, Ctrl-D, Ctrl-C); so in that case it only works if I provide the "n"
> argument for readLines. I'm surprised that Ctrl-Z doesn't work.
So was I. I'm currently working on that, so it will in the next release.
I have some hope of fixing scan, but it is very complicated (I've already
spent a couple of hours on it).
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