Suggestion for comments in data files (i.e. read.table) - R-devel

Brian Ripley · 2000-05-23T10:56:43Z

> From: "Jens OehlschlÃ¤gel-Akiyoshi" > Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 10:40:25 +0200 [...] > for Prof. Ripley's suggestion > > > My suggestion would be to allow # anywhere on the line to skip the > > rest of the line, and to make sure that # inside quotes did nothing. > > Final comment: any solution having # skip the rest of the line MUST be > optional, otherwise R looses it's ability to > import general ASCII-data. You never know whether some people use s

Brian Ripley

Tue, May 23, 2000 3:56 AM #

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Yes, Telford Tendys had comment=FALSE as the default for that argument.

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