Usage
read.file(file, header = T, na.strings = c("NA", "", ".", "na", "-"),
comment.char = "#", filetype = c("default", "csv", "txt", "rdata"), ...)Arguments
file
character:
The name of the file which the data are to be read from.
This may also be a complete URL or a path to a compressed file.
If it does not contain an absolute path, the file name is
relative to the current working directory,
header
logical;
For .txt and .csv files, this indicates whether the first line of the file includes variables names.
na.strings
character: strings that indicate missing data.
comment.char
character: a character vector of length one containing a single character or an empty string. Use "" to turn
off the interpretation of comments altogether.
filetype
one of "default", "csv", "txt", or "rdata"
indicating the type of file being loaded. The default is to use the filename
to guess the type of file.