Read item/description information from 00Index-like files. Such
files are description lists rendered in tabular form, and currently
used for the INDEX and demo/00Index files of add-on
packages.
read.00Index(file)the name of a file to read data values from. If the
specified file is "", then input is taken from the keyboard
(in this case input can be terminated by a blank line).
Alternatively, file can be a connection, which
will be opened if necessary, and if so closed at the end of the
function call.
A character matrix with 2 columns named "Item" and
"Description" which hold the items and descriptions.
formatDL for the inverse operation of creating a
00Index-style file from items and their descriptions.