### This file is part of the 'foreign' package for R.

# Copyright 2004 by Roger Bivand
#
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read.systat <- function(file, to.data.frame=TRUE)
{
    if (length(file) != 1L) stop("only one file")
    if (!is.character(file)) stop("file must be character")
    res <- .Call(readSystat, as.character(file))
    if (to.data.frame) {
        comment <- NULL
        if (!is.null(attr(res, "comment")) &&
            nzchar(attr(res, "comment")))
            comment <- attr(res, "comment")
        res <- as.data.frame(res)
        if (!is.null(comment)) comment(res) <- comment
    }
    res
}