Re: [R] read tab delimited file from a certain line
Hi Henrik, that's perfect, thanks! Greetings Christof Am 18-01-2013 19:26, schrieb Henrik Bengtsson: Christof, I've added support for this to the R.filesets package. In your case, then all you need to do is: library(R.filesets) dlf - readDataFrame(filename, skip=^year) No need to specify any other arguments - they're all automagically inferred - and the default is stringsAsFactors=FALSE. This is in R.filesets v2.0.0 which I still haven't published on CRAN. In the meanwhile, you can install it via: source(http://aroma-project.org/hbLite.R;) hbLite(R.filesets) /Henrik On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Christof Kluß ckl...@email.uni-kiel.de wrote: Hello thank you for the fast and helpful answer! Now the following works fine for me x - readLines(filename) i - grep(^year, x) dlf - read.table(textConnection(x[i:length(x)]), header = T, stringsAsFactors=F,sep=\t) Greetings Christof Am 16-01-2013 16:55, schrieb Rui Barradas: Hello, Read the file using readLines, then grep ^year. You can then use a textConnection to read.table: x - readLines(con = textConnection( informations (unknown count of lines) ... and at some point the table -- year month mday value 2013 1 16 0 )) # This is it i - grep(^year, x) read.table(textConnection(x[i:length(x)]), header = TRUE) Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Em 16-01-2013 14:17, Christof Kluß escreveu: Hi I would like to read table data from a text-files with extra informations in the header (of unknown line count). Example: informations (unknown count of lines) ... and at some point the table -- year month mday value 2013 1 16 0 ... If it was an excel file I could use something like read.xls(..., pattern=year) But it is a simple tab seperated text-file. Is there an easy way to read only the table? (Without dirty things ;)) Thx Christof __ 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. __ 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. __ 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.
Re: [R] read tab delimited file from a certain line
Christof, I've added support for this to the R.filesets package. In your case, then all you need to do is: library(R.filesets) dlf - readDataFrame(filename, skip=^year) No need to specify any other arguments - they're all automagically inferred - and the default is stringsAsFactors=FALSE. This is in R.filesets v2.0.0 which I still haven't published on CRAN. In the meanwhile, you can install it via: source(http://aroma-project.org/hbLite.R;) hbLite(R.filesets) /Henrik On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Christof Kluß ckl...@email.uni-kiel.de wrote: Hello thank you for the fast and helpful answer! Now the following works fine for me x - readLines(filename) i - grep(^year, x) dlf - read.table(textConnection(x[i:length(x)]), header = T, stringsAsFactors=F,sep=\t) Greetings Christof Am 16-01-2013 16:55, schrieb Rui Barradas: Hello, Read the file using readLines, then grep ^year. You can then use a textConnection to read.table: x - readLines(con = textConnection( informations (unknown count of lines) ... and at some point the table -- year month mday value 2013 1 16 0 )) # This is it i - grep(^year, x) read.table(textConnection(x[i:length(x)]), header = TRUE) Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Em 16-01-2013 14:17, Christof Kluß escreveu: Hi I would like to read table data from a text-files with extra informations in the header (of unknown line count). Example: informations (unknown count of lines) ... and at some point the table -- year month mday value 2013 1 16 0 ... If it was an excel file I could use something like read.xls(..., pattern=year) But it is a simple tab seperated text-file. Is there an easy way to read only the table? (Without dirty things ;)) Thx Christof __ 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. __ 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. __ 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.
Re: [R] read tab delimited file from a certain line
On Jan 18, 2013, at 10:26 AM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: Christof, I've added support for this to the R.filesets package. In your case, then all you need to do is: library(R.filesets) dlf - readDataFrame(filename, skip=^year) No need to specify any other arguments - they're all automagically inferred - and the default is stringsAsFactors=FALSE. This is in R.filesets v2.0.0 which I still haven't published on CRAN. In the meanwhile, you can install it via: source(http://aroma-project.org/hbLite.R;) hbLite(R.filesets) Mac GUI users should exit to a Terminal session running R --vanilla before attempting this. (Probably a safer practice in general, but sometimes we get get lazy because the GUI Package Installer is so handy.) -- David. /Henrik On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Christof Kluß ckl...@email.uni-kiel.de wrote: Hello thank you for the fast and helpful answer! Now the following works fine for me x - readLines(filename) i - grep(^year, x) dlf - read.table(textConnection(x[i:length(x)]), header = T, stringsAsFactors=F,sep=\t) Greetings Christof Am 16-01-2013 16:55, schrieb Rui Barradas: Hello, Read the file using readLines, then grep ^year. You can then use a textConnection to read.table: x - readLines(con = textConnection( informations (unknown count of lines) ... and at some point the table -- year month mday value 2013 1 16 0 )) # This is it i - grep(^year, x) read.table(textConnection(x[i:length(x)]), header = TRUE) Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Em 16-01-2013 14:17, Christof Kluß escreveu: Hi I would like to read table data from a text-files with extra informations in the header (of unknown line count). Example: informations (unknown count of lines) ... and at some point the table -- year month mday value 2013 1 16 0 ... If it was an excel file I could use something like read.xls(..., pattern=year) But it is a simple tab seperated text-file. Is there an easy way to read only the table? (Without dirty things ;)) Thx Christof __ 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. __ 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. __ 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. David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA __ 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.
Re: [R] read tab delimited file from a certain line
Hello thank you for the fast and helpful answer! Now the following works fine for me x - readLines(filename) i - grep(^year, x) dlf - read.table(textConnection(x[i:length(x)]), header = T, stringsAsFactors=F,sep=\t) Greetings Christof Am 16-01-2013 16:55, schrieb Rui Barradas: Hello, Read the file using readLines, then grep ^year. You can then use a textConnection to read.table: x - readLines(con = textConnection( informations (unknown count of lines) ... and at some point the table -- year month mday value 2013 1 16 0 )) # This is it i - grep(^year, x) read.table(textConnection(x[i:length(x)]), header = TRUE) Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Em 16-01-2013 14:17, Christof Kluß escreveu: Hi I would like to read table data from a text-files with extra informations in the header (of unknown line count). Example: informations (unknown count of lines) ... and at some point the table -- year month mday value 2013 1 16 0 ... If it was an excel file I could use something like read.xls(..., pattern=year) But it is a simple tab seperated text-file. Is there an easy way to read only the table? (Without dirty things ;)) Thx Christof __ 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. __ 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.
Re: [R] read tab delimited file from a certain line
Hello, Read the file using readLines, then grep ^year. You can then use a textConnection to read.table: x - readLines(con = textConnection( informations (unknown count of lines) ... and at some point the table -- year month mday value 2013 1 16 0 )) # This is it i - grep(^year, x) read.table(textConnection(x[i:length(x)]), header = TRUE) Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Em 16-01-2013 14:17, Christof Kluß escreveu: Hi I would like to read table data from a text-files with extra informations in the header (of unknown line count). Example: informations (unknown count of lines) ... and at some point the table -- year month mday value 2013 1 16 0 ... If it was an excel file I could use something like read.xls(..., pattern=year) But it is a simple tab seperated text-file. Is there an easy way to read only the table? (Without dirty things ;)) Thx Christof __ 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. __ 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.
Re: [R] read tab delimited file from a certain line
Lines1 - readLines(con = textConnection( informations (unknown count of lines) ... and at some point the table -- year month mday value 2013 1 16 0 )) indx-seq(match(regmatches(Lines1,regexpr(^year.*,Lines1)),Lines1),length(Lines1)) read.table(text=Lines1[indx],sep=,header=TRUE) # year month mday value #1 2013 1 16 0 A.K. - Original Message - From: Christof Kluß ckl...@email.uni-kiel.de To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch Cc: Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 9:17 AM Subject: [R] read tab delimited file from a certain line Hi I would like to read table data from a text-files with extra informations in the header (of unknown line count). Example: informations (unknown count of lines) ... and at some point the table -- year month mday value 2013 1 16 0 ... If it was an excel file I could use something like read.xls(..., pattern=year) But it is a simple tab seperated text-file. Is there an easy way to read only the table? (Without dirty things ;)) Thx Christof __ 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. __ 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.
