I had a question about scan in R. For better code readability, I
would like to have lines in the block of data to be scanned that are
commented - not just lines that have a comment at the end. For example
#age, weight, height
33,128,65
34,56,155
instead of having to do something like
On 11/27/2006 7:25 PM, Jarrett Byrnes wrote:
I had a question about scan in R. For better code readability, I
would like to have lines in the block of data to be scanned that are
commented - not just lines that have a comment at the end. For example
#age, weight, height
33,128,65
From ?scan :
If |comment.char| occurs (except inside a quoted character field), it
signals that the rest of the line should be regarded as a comment and be
discarded. Lines beginning with a comment character (possibly after
white space with the default separator) are treated as blank lines.
You may want to set blank.lines.skip=TRUE too.
Simon.
From ?scan :
If |comment.char| occurs (except inside a quoted character field), it
signals that the rest of the line should be regarded as a comment and be
discarded. Lines beginning with a comment character (possibly after
white
Right, but what if it is not the first line? For example
#data block 1
34,54,23
23,53,12
35,23,23
#data block 2
64,24,13
354,24,12
324,13,3
On Nov 27, 2006, at 4:39 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 11/27/2006 7:25 PM, Jarrett Byrnes wrote:
I had a question about scan in R. For better code
On 11/27/2006 9:23 PM, Jarrett Byrnes wrote:
Right, but what if it is not the first line?
If it's not the first line, then you should follow the instructions that
start on the 4th line of my reply.
Duncan Murdoch
For example
#data block 1
34,54,23
23,53,12
35,23,23
#data block 2
