Read.table while using '#' as delimiter does not work?

Question

I have a data file with the # sign as delimiter, that I would like to read with the read.file command.

First of all; it\'s a big data file

Answer 1

The comment character is also #, so you need something like:

read.table(file='tmp.txt', check.names=FALSE, sep='#', 
          header=TRUE, comment.char="@")