[R] question about scan()

[Joerg Maeder]

Hello,

it looks you using R1.4.X
in this case you have to add comment.char = "" to your scan command,
because '#' is used to mark comments. In R1.5.0 "" is the default (that
means: no comments allowed), which is the better option beacause there
are many different comment chars in tht different file types.

gruess

joerg

joshi at engr.orst.edu wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am using the scan function to read from a file. In
> general the syntax I am using is as follows:
> 
> scan("myfile", list(a = "", b="", c="", d=""), sep=",")
> 
> The file I am trying to read contains a #< in the 'd'
> field. When the file is read into an object, the d
> field comes as "" for that particular string.
> 
> I guess the problem is because the # is used for
> commenting.
> My question is that if I want to read the #< anyways
> from the file, how do I do that?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> -Saket.
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