[R] Reading comments in text file from R

[Coen van Hasselt]

Try readLines, for instance:

# test.txt contents
comments
a,b,c
1,1,1
2,2,2

> readLines("c:/test.txt",1)
[1] "comments"
> read.csv("c:/test.txt",skip=1)
  a b c
1 1 1 1
2 2 2 2


Coen

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 19:26, Graham Smith <myotisone at gmail.com> wrote:
> When a text file starts with a few lines commented out with # can you
> read those line from within R.
>
> 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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