[R] comments in scan

[Simon Blomberg]

 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.

So, set comment.char="#"

and you should be fine.

Cheers,

Simon.

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
> 34,56,155
>
> instead of having to do something like
>
> 33,128,65 #age, weight, height
> 34,56,155
>
>
> Is this at all possible?
>
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