On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 13:16 -0400, mark salsburg wrote: > ok so the gct file looks like this: > > #1.2 (version number) > 7283 19 (matrix size) > Name Description Values > .... ....... ...... > > How can I tell R to disregard the first two lines and start reading > the 3rd line in this gct file. I would just delete them, but I do not > know how to open a gct. file > > thank you > > On 7/19/05, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/19/2005 12:10 PM, mark salsburg wrote: > > > I have two files to compare, one is a regular txt file that I can read > > > in no prob. > > > > > > The other is a .gct file (How do I read in this one?) > > > > > > I tried a simple > > > > > > read.table("data.gct", header = T) > > > > > > How do you suggest reading in this file?? > > > > > > > .gct is not a standard filename extension. You need to know what is in > > that file. Where did you get it? What program created it? > > > > Chances are the easiest thing to do is to get the program that created > > it to export in a well known format, e.g. .csv. > > > > Duncan Murdoch
The above would be consistent with the info in my reply. I guess if the format is consistent, as per Mark's example above, you can use: read.table("data.gct", skip = 2, header = TRUE) which will start by skipping the first two lines and then reading in the header row and then the data. See ?read.table HTH, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html