according to the helpfile, comment only takes one character, so you'll
have to do some 'magic' :)
i'd suggest to first run mydata through sed, and replace one of the
comment chars with another, then run read.table with the one comment
char that remains.
sed -e 's/^\^/!/' mydata.txt > mydata2.txt
alternatively, you could do read.table twice, once with ! and once with
^, and then pull out all the common rows from the two results.
on 06/06/2008 03:47 AM Gundala Viswanath said the
following:> Hi all,
>
> Suppose I want to read a text file with read.table.
> It containt lines to be skipped that begins with "!" and
"^".
>
> Is there a way to include this two values in the read.table function?
> I tried this but doesn't seem to work.
>
> dat <- read.table("mydata.txt", comment.char =
c("!","^") , na.strings
> = "null", sep = "\t");
>
> Please advice.
>