[R] Reading # in file with read.csv

Michel Friesenhahn michel.friesenhahn.b at bayer.com
Tue Oct 11 20:22:53 CEST 2005


I'm using read.csv to read in a csv file containing '#' characters.  For
example, say I'm reading the following file (test.csv):

var1,var2,var3
a,b,c
d,e#,f
g,h,i

It outputs:

> read.csv("Raw Data\\test.csv")
  var1 var2 var3
1    a    b    c
2    d    e
3    g    h    i
Warning message:
incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'Raw Data\test.csv'

read.csv appears to be treating '#' as a comment even in input data.  Is there a
way to turn this interpretation off?

Thanks,

Mike




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