What have you tried? What type of file are you trying to import from?
What do you want your data to look like in R? take a look at ?read.table and ?readLines On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:23 AM, joel.green <joel.gr...@live.co.uk> wrote: > Hey > > I am having trouble importing data into R, my data field looks like this > > 21 TEST DATA > 32 year:2012 > 33 > 34 > 5 > 36 > > I require the the number at the start of each line however the text is not > needed, i am struggling to get R to import the data with out changing the > file itself? > > how do i import the data, i have tried using comment.char=" ", however this > didnt work, any help would be much appreciated thanks > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/scanning-data-into-r-tp4513182p4513182.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
