I would find it useful if fread had a skip= argument as in read.table since I have files from time to time that have garbage at the top. Another situation I find from time to time is that the header is messed up but one can still read the file if one can skip over the header and specify header = FALSE.
An extra feature that would be nice but less important would be if one could specify skip = "string" and have it skip all lines until it found one with "string": in it and then start reading from the matched row onward. Normally the string would be chosen to be a string found in the header and not likely found prior to the header. read.xls in gdata has a similar feature and I find it quite handy at times. -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com _______________________________________________ datatable-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/datatable-help
