Error when skipping lines in text file

[SamGG]

Hi,
Thanks for this package.
I guess that the beginning of the code L24-L35 is guessing the right parameters for read.table. But then read.table L38 is not applied to the raw file but to already processed text lines. Because skipping lines already took place, it should not be applied twice. I think that the file name actually should be given to read.table L38 instead of the text variable.
Best.

MALDIquantForeign/R/importTab-functions.R

Lines 24 to 39 in 37fbb16

	text <- readLines(file, encoding=encoding)
	text <- tail(text, length(text) - skip)
	text <- text[!startsWith(trimws(text), comment.char)]
	if (is.null(sep)) {
	sep <- .autoSep(text)
	}
	if (is.null(header)) {
	header <- .autoHeader(text, sep=sep)
	}
	## load ms file
	s <- read.table(text=text, header=header, sep=sep, skip=skip,
	comment.char=comment.char, stringsAsFactors=FALSE, ...)

[sgibb]

Dear @SamGG thanks for the bug report! You are right the skip is done twice.

I think that the file name actually should be given to read.table L38 instead of the text variable.

In that case the file would be read twice (readLines and read.table) which would be unnecessary. I will just ignore the skip argument in read.table.

[SamGG]

Thanks for considering my report.
Best.