scan has no problem with blank lines. read.table has an argument that controls how it handles blank lines and the default setting is to ignore them.
--- Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 20:27:48 -0600 (CST) From: Rui Song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [R] About reading data into R I have a problem about reading data into R. There is a "\n" between each pair of data, like: -155.65 -155.77 -155.40 -155.46 -155.52 -155.34 ... Could anyone tell me how to read in such data? Thanks! Rui ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html