On Apr 26, 2013, at 14:48 , John Kane wrote: > I don't think so. read.csv is a striped down version of read.table. You > should be able to do this with the skip option there.
You can also pass skip= to read.csv, it just passes it on to read.table. But it is not clear to me what is supposed to happen with the the double header, or what the file format in question is exactly. It is, e.g., quite possible to do something like hd <- read.csv(..., nrows=2) df <- read.csv(..., skip=2, header=FALSE) names(df) <- ... some operation on hd ... > > John Kane > Kingston ON Canada > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: analys...@hotmail.com >> Sent: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:35:42 -0700 (PDT) >> To: r-help@r-project.org >> Subject: [R] csv file with two header rows >> >> Is there a way to use read.csv() on such a file without deleting one >> of the header rows? >> >> Thanks. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ____________________________________________________________ > GET FREE SMILEYS FOR YOUR IM & EMAIL - Learn more at > http://www.inbox.com/smileys > Works with AIM®, MSN® Messenger, Yahoo!® Messenger, ICQ®, Google Talk™ and > most webmails > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
