Hi, I have tab delimited text files containing numerical data, like below, but many more columns.
As you can see, the first few lines are heading and file data. I need to skip these lines. 2 lines above where the numbers start is what I want to use as my header rows. I then want to ignore the next line (containing units) and start importing data. The header row repeats. i want to ignore the blank rows and text in the data and then continue reading. Is there an easy way to do this? thanks Beyar ------------------------- main data file - file 1 by mr x etc Time out1 Sec mm 0.82495117 -0.020977303 1.3554688 -0.059330709 1.826416 -0.021419302 2.3295898 -0.051521059 2.8347168 -0.020661414 Time out1 Sec mm 3.8679199 -0.000439643 4.3322754 -0.063477799 4.8015137 -0.024581354 5.3286133 -0.067487299 5.8212891 -0.011978489 ----------------------------------------------- -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Ignore-text-when-reading-data-tp21718709p21718709.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.
