[R] read.table

[Gabor Grothendieck]

You can do it manually by reading in the headers separately:

headers <- read.table(test, header = FALSE, nrow = 1, sep = ";", as.is = TRUE)
read.table(test, header = FALSE, skip = 1, sep = ";", col.names = headers)

On 2/13/06, Diethelm Wuertz <wuertz at itp.phys.ethz.ch> wrote:
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>
> I have a file named "test.csv" with the following 3 lines:
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> %y-%m-%d;VALUE
> 1999-01-01;100
> 2000-12-31;999
>
>
>  > read.table("test.csv", header = TRUE, sep = ";")
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> delivers:
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>   X.y..m..d VALUE
> 1 1999-01-01   100
> 2 2000-12-31   999
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>
> I would like to see the following ...
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>    %y-%m-%d VALUE
> 1 1999-01-01   100
> 2 2000-12-31   999
>
>
> Note,
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>  > readLines("test.csv", 1)
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> delivers
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> [1] "%y-%m-%d;VALUE"
>
>
> Is this possible ???
>
>
> Thanks DW
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