search for: 123abc123

...; in the call to scan, so that the entire string is passed to read.table. That seems to be the intended purpose of the call to scan anyway. Here is an example where I'd like to specify comment.char="" to turn off the interpretation of comments altogether. Contents of file test.dat: 123ABC123 123#3 123 123XYZ123 > read.fwf("test.dat", widths=c(3,3,3), sep="\t", comment.char="") V1 V2 V3 1 123 ABC 123 2 123 NA NA 3 123 XYZ 123 Replacing this assignment in read.fwf: raw <- scan(file, what = "", sep = "\n", quote = "...

...; in the call to scan, so that the entire string is passed to read.table. That seems to be the intended purpose of the call to scan anyway. Here is an example where I'd like to specify comment.char="" to turn off the interpretation of comments altogether. Contents of file test.dat: 123ABC123 123#3 123 123XYZ123 > read.fwf("test.dat", widths=c(3,3,3), sep="\t", comment.char="") V1 V2 V3 1 123 ABC 123 2 123 NA NA 3 123 XYZ 123 Replacing this assignment in read.fwf: raw <- scan(file, what = "", sep = "\n", quote = "...

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