[R] read.table issue with "#"

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

> 
> The problem is that I get a the following error bacause anything after the
> # is ignored.
> 
> Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, 
> :
>   line 6 did not have 500 elements
> 
> R thinks that line 6 has only 2 elements because of the #.
> 

Use 'readLines' instead, followed by 'strsplit'.
In the example below the separator is a space.

tc <- textConnection(
"yes yes yes yes yes
yes yes yes yes yes
yes yes # yes yes"
)
#x <- read.table(tc)   # same error: "line 3 did not have 5 elements"
x <- readLines(tc)
close(tc)
strsplit(x, " ")

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas


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