[R] read.table

[Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen]

Diethelm Wuertz wrote:
> Thanks a lot that works fine!
> 
> Next problem, if I would have my own package, and the file "test.csv"
> would be located in the data directory
> 
> How to use the function data to get
> 
>  > data(test)

Also put in the data subdirectory the file test.R
with the commands to read  test.csv

Kjetil

> 
> resulting in:
> 
>  > test
> 
>     %y-%m-%d VALUE
> 1 1999-01-01   100
> 2 2000-12-31   999
> 
> 
> Again Thanks in advance Diethelm Wuertz
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Phil Spector wrote:
> 
>> Look at the check.names= argument to read.table -- you want to set it
>> to FALSE.  But rememeber that you'l have to put quotes around the name
>> whenever you use it, as in x$'%y-%m-%d'
>>
>>                                        - Phil Spector
>>                      Statistical Computing Facility
>>                      Department of Statistics
>>                      UC Berkeley
>>                      spector at stat.berkeley.edu
>>
>> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Diethelm Wuertz wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I have a file named "test.csv" with the following 3 lines:
>>>
>>> %y-%m-%d;VALUE
>>> 1999-01-01;100
>>> 2000-12-31;999
>>>
>>>
>>>> read.table("test.csv", header = TRUE, sep = ";")
>>> delivers:
>>>
>>>   X.y..m..d VALUE
>>> 1 1999-01-01   100
>>> 2 2000-12-31   999
>>>
>>>
>>> I would like to see the following ...
>>>
>>>    %y-%m-%d VALUE
>>> 1 1999-01-01   100
>>> 2 2000-12-31   999
>>>
>>>
>>> Note,
>>>
>>>> readLines("test.csv", 1)
>>> delivers
>>>
>>> [1] "%y-%m-%d;VALUE"
>>>
>>>
>>> Is this possible ???
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks DW
>>>
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