diff --git a/bin/1.2_filter_motifs/merge.R b/bin/1.2_filter_motifs/merge.R
index 507a746..9d97da0 100644
--- a/bin/1.2_filter_motifs/merge.R
+++ b/bin/1.2_filter_motifs/merge.R
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ splitted$maxpos = splitted$maxpos - splitted$start
 data.table::fwrite(splitted, paste(folder, "/merged.bed", sep=''), row.names=FALSE, col.names=FALSE, quote=FALSE, sep='\t')
 
 #aditional information of the comparison of the unknown footprints and the known motifs are computed and written to FilterMotifs.stats
-before = fread(args[4], header=FALSE)
+before = fread(args[4])
 
 sumb=sum(before$V3-before$V2)
 suma=sum(splitted$length)