Thanks Peter, I must have misread the read.csv help. I thought skip had been dropped with a couple of other options.
John Kane Kingston ON Canada > -----Original Message----- > From: pda...@gmail.com > Sent: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:48:22 +0200 > To: jrkrid...@inbox.com > Subject: Re: [R] csv file with two header rows > > > 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 ____________________________________________________________ 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.