Hi, On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Hurr <hill0...@umn.edu> wrote: > So far I have figured out that the following line > reads our time series files into R OK. > dtLs$dta <- read.table("C:/TryRRead/datFiles/JFeqfi4h.rta", header = TRUE, > sep = ",", colClasses = "character") > But I have to remove a main-title line so > that the first line is the column titles line. > This leads to having two sets of data files around when > we would rather have just one set. > How can I read just one line from the file to > get the main title in before using the read.table() call?
Not sure I understand correctly, but would something like this do? R> title.line <- readLines('file.rta', n=1) R> dat <- read.table('file.rta', skip=1, header=TRUE, ...) -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact ______________________________________________ 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.