read.00Index: Read 00Index-style Files
Description
Read item/description information from ‘00Index’-like files. Such
files are description lists rendered in tabular form, and currently
used for the ‘INDEX’ and ‘demo/00Index’ files of add-on
packages.
Arguments
file
the name of a file to read data values from. If the
specified file is "", then input is taken from the keyboard
(in this case input can be terminated by a blank line).
Alternatively, file can be a connection, which
will be opened if necessary, and if so closed at the end of the
function call. Value
A character matrix with 2 columns named "Item" and
"Description" which hold the items and descriptions.
See Also
formatDL for the inverse operation of creating a
00Index-style file from items and their descriptions.