http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?format=rdb&period=7&site_no=021973269
I would like to be able to parse this file up: I can do this x <- read.table("http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?format=rdb&period=7&site_no=021973269", skip=26) but If I add another gauge to this x <- read.table("http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?format=rdb&period=7&site_no=021973269,06018500", skip=26) It does not work because there are two files appended to each other. It would be easy enough to write the code so that each individual gauge would be read in as a different file, but is there a way to get this information in using the commented part of the file to give the headers? This is probably a job for some other programing language like perl, but I don't know perl. any help would be very helpful. regards, -- Stephen Sefick Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis ______________________________________________ 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.