How to eliminate comment lines from csv using fread function in R?

[bhavneetattri1995]

I trying to read a CSV file which has some comment lines(start with #) along with data rows. fread function is used to read this CSV file.

config <- fread("Configuration.csv")

In this file number of lines are not fixed they might be changed. How to read the CSV without these comment lines.

Thanks in Advance!!!

[MichaelChirico]

this is an outstanding feature request:

#856

Please refer to there for some helpful tricks for getting around this now.

If you're still stuck, please raise the issue on StackOverflow for further help :)