read.table

Thanks a lot that works fine!

Next problem, if I would have my own package, and the file "test.csv"
would be located in the data directory

How to use the function data to get

 > data(test)

resulting in:

 > test

    %y-%m-%d VALUE
1 1999-01-01   100
2 2000-12-31   999


Again Thanks in advance Diethelm Wuertz




Phil Spector wrote:

Look at the check.names= argument to read.table -- you want to set it
to FALSE.  But rememeber that you'l have to put quotes around the name
whenever you use it, as in x$'%y-%m-%d'

                                       - Phil Spector
                     Statistical Computing Facility
                     Department of Statistics
                     UC Berkeley
                     spector at stat.berkeley.edu

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Diethelm Wuertz wrote:

I have a file named "test.csv" with the following 3 lines:

%y-%m-%d;VALUE
1999-01-01;100
2000-12-31;999

read.table("test.csv", header = TRUE, sep = ";")

delivers:

  X.y..m..d VALUE
1 1999-01-01   100
2 2000-12-31   999


I would like to see the following ...

   %y-%m-%d VALUE
1 1999-01-01   100
2 2000-12-31   999


Note,

readLines("test.csv", 1)

delivers

[1] "%y-%m-%d;VALUE"


Is this possible ???


Thanks DW