From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Mar 10 08:26:10 2004
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Wed Mar 10 08:26:56 2004
Subject: [Rd] Documentation of read.table
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On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 kjetil@entelnet.bo wrote:

> The documentation of read.table could be a bit clearer if 
> the explanation of the argument nrows makes clear that eventual 
> header line(s) are not included.

Why would they be?  The `rows' are of the data frame, just as in
`row.names'.

Do you want the help file to explan what a data frame is, too?

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[Rd] Documentation of read.table
Prof Brian Ripley