Files with headers

Files with headers use the following command:

> student  <- read.fwf("student-fwf-header.txt",     widths=c(4,15,20,15,4), header=TRUE, sep="t",skip=2) 

If header=TRUE, the first row of the file is interpreted as having the column headers. Column headers, if present, need to be separated by the specified sep argument. The sep argument only applies to the header row.

The skip argument denotes the number of lines to skip; in this recipe, the first two lines are skipped.