[R] re ading and analyzing a text file

Yasir Kaheil
2008-05-16T14:35:18Z

use the parameter 'skip' in read.table

dat<-read.table("filename",skip=number of rows you want to skip)

thanks

y


DAVID ARTETA GARCIA wrote:
>
> Dear list,
>
> I have a text file from a scanner that includes 20 lines of text
> (scanner settings) before it actually starts showing the readings in a
> tabular format (headings are ID, intensity, background and few others).
>
> I am a biologist with some experience using R and my question is if it
> is possible to read this file into an R workspace and store the actual
> readings in a dataframe, avoiding the text at the begining. It seems
> to me that this is not the actual purpose of R, but maybe someone can
> point me to a method for doing this. Do I need to parse the file with
> some other programming language? is it possible to link, say, Perl or
> C++ with R to automate the reading and the analysis of such files? The
> aim is to be able to automate this analysis since these files are our
> routine experimental output.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> D.
>
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Yasir H. Kaheil
Catchment Research Facility
The University of Western Ontario

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