Q:

Easy way to get original header for read.table in R

I'm importing a tab-delimited text file with read.table. The problem is that column header there (the 1st line) contains many special characters that got substituted with dots after import. I understand the reason but I still need to have the original header for labels, outputs, etc. How I can import the original header without much hassle with low-level input?

A:

check.names=FALSE should do it...

