From Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>  Tue May 23 11:56:43 2000
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 11:56:43 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] Suggestion for comments in data files (i.e. read.table)
Message-ID: <200005231056.LAA15932@toucan.stats.ox.ac.uk>


> From: "Jens Oehlschlgel-Akiyoshi" <jens.oehlschlaegel-akiyoshi@mdfactory.de>
> Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 10:40:25 +0200

[...]

> for Prof. Ripley's suggestion
> 
> > My suggestion would be to allow # anywhere on the line to skip the
> > rest of the line, and to make sure that # inside quotes did nothing.
> 
> Final comment: any solution having # skip the rest of the line MUST be
> optional, otherwise R looses it's ability to
> import general ASCII-data. You never know whether some people use special
> characters in their strings.

Yes, Telford Tendys had comment=FALSE as the default for that argument.


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[Rd] Suggestion for comments in data files (i.e. read.table)
Prof Brian Ripley