read.table( ... comment.char="#") truncated my data
The default has been "#" since version 1.4.0, that is for the last *five* releases of R. Changing *now* would be `not compatible earlier versions of R'.
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 Ren_Yu at hgsi.com wrote:
I found that the new feature of the comment.char="#" argument in the read.table function truncated my data while the data set actually contains '#'. We analyze lot of data that contain '#'. This is really annoying and it is also not compatible earlier version of R. I searched the R archive and found the following message for the scan function. Is it possible to change the default to " " in read.table ?
Yes, and it is easy for you to do: see read.csv for a hint about how to do so.
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