当您不确定函数的作用时,除了阅读帮助页面之外,您还可以检查函数的实际代码。例如,输入read.delim
显示该函数包含以下代码:
> read.delim
function (file, header = TRUE, sep = "\t", quote = "\"", dec = ".",
fill = TRUE, comment.char = "", ...)
read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote,
dec = dec, fill = fill, comment.char = comment.char, ...)
Thus, read.delim()
只是一个包装函数read.table()
使用默认参数值,在读取制表符分隔的数据时很方便。它与调用完全相同:
read.table(file, header = TRUE, sep = "\t", quote = "\"",
dec = ".", fill = TRUE, comment.char = "")