title: read.table function in R drops elements
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12771522/cannt-read-file-with-and-space-using-read-table-or-read-csv-in-r">cannt read file with “#” and space using read.table or read.csv in R</a>  </p>
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  <p>I have the problem with R that when I'm reading in (using <code>read.table</code> function) delimited files (e.g. tab-delimited text files) with R, the rows containing <code>#</code> or <code>'</code> characters are silently dropped. how the file should be read in so that the rows containing these characters aren't dropped? </p>