[R] Reading comments in text file from R

[David Winsemius]

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
>
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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT