You may want to set blank.lines.skip=TRUE too. Simon.
> From ?scan : > > If |comment.char| occurs (except inside a quoted character field), it > signals that the rest of the line should be regarded as a comment and be > discarded. Lines beginning with a comment character (possibly after > white space with the default separator) are treated as blank lines. > > So, set comment.char="#" > > and you should be fine. > > Cheers, > > Simon. > > Jarrett Byrnes wrote: > I had a question about scan in R. For better code readability, I > would like to have lines in the block of data to be scanned that are > commented - not just lines that have a comment at the end. For example > > #age, weight, height > 33,128,65 > 34,56,155 > > instead of having to do something like > > 33,128,65 #age, weight, height > 34,56,155 > > > Is this at all possible? > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. > > -- Simon Blomberg, B.Sc.(Hons.), Ph.D, M.App.Stat. Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia T: +61 2 6125 7800 email: Simon.Blomberg_at_anu.edu.au F: +61 2 6125 0757 CRICOS Provider # 00120C The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. - John Tukey. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.