Hi David! if you use read.table, there is an argument called skip.
You can set that to skip=20, say. HTH, Erin On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:30 AM, DAVID ARTETA GARCIA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ 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.