Count the Number of Fields per Line
DESCRIPTION:
This function scans an ASCII text file and counts the number of fields on each line.
USAGE
:
count.fields(file, sep, skip=0)
REQUIRED ARGUMENTS
:
file
:
the name of the text file of ASCII data. The file should contain one line per row of the table, with fields separated by the character in
sep
.
OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS
:
sep
:
the field separator. If missing, any amount of white space can separate items.
skip
:
the number of lines in the file to skip before reading data.
VALUE
:
a vector giving the number fields, in the sense of
scan
or
read.table
, on each line of the file.
SEE ALSO:
scan
,
read.table
.