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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>R: Read 00Index-style Files</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="R.css" /> </head><body> <table width="100%" summary="page for read.00Index {tools}"><tr><td>read.00Index {tools}</td><td style="text-align: right;">R Documentation</td></tr></table> <h2>Read 00Index-style Files</h2> <h3>Description</h3> <p>Read item/description information from ‘<span class="file">00Index</span>’-like files. Such files are description lists rendered in tabular form, and currently used for the ‘<span class="file">INDEX</span>’ and ‘<span class="file">demo/00Index</span>’ files of add-on packages. </p> <h3>Usage</h3> <pre> read.00Index(file) </pre> <h3>Arguments</h3> <table summary="R argblock"> <tr valign="top"><td><code>file</code></td> <td> <p>the name of a file to read data values from. If the specified file is <code>""</code>, then input is taken from the keyboard (in this case input can be terminated by a blank line). Alternatively, <code>file</code> can be a <code><a href="../../base/html/connections.html">connection</a></code>, which will be opened if necessary, and if so closed at the end of the function call.</p> </td></tr> </table> <h3>Value</h3> <p>A character matrix with 2 columns named <code>"Item"</code> and <code>"Description"</code> which hold the items and descriptions. </p> <h3>See Also</h3> <p><code><a href="../../base/html/formatDL.html">formatDL</a></code> for the inverse operation of creating a 00Index-style file from items and their descriptions. </p> <hr /><div style="text-align: center;">[Package <em>tools</em> version 3.6.0 <a href="00Index.html">Index</a>]</div> </body></html>