[R] read.table with multiple header lines

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Mon Apr 7 22:16:32 CEST 2008


If there are no t's in your file other than in the second line then:

read.table("myfile.dat", comment = "t", header = TRUE)


On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Deborah Kronenberg
<Deborah.kronenberg at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have difficulties in reading in a text file with multiple (=2) header lines. My table looks like this:
>
> id      code    gr      grcode  AA      AB      AC      AD
>                        time    30      40      50      60
> 1       1234    1       c       0       1       0       0
> 2       1346    1       c       0       0       0       1
> 3       1456    1       c       0       0       1       1
> 4       1893    1       c       0       0       1       1
>
> Can someone help me out?
>
> Thanks
>
> Deborah
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