[R] More on scan()

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 apjaworski at mmm.com wrote:

> Here is one way of doing this.
> (1) read the whole file in as a vector of strings one line at a time
>       x <- readLines("<path to your data file>")
> (2) find the position of the "@DATA" string in your vector
>       s <- which(x == "@DATA")
> (3) scan the file again skipping s lines
>       scan("<path to your data file>", skip=s, sep=",", ...)

Or use a file connection and read one line at a time until you find @DATA,
then call skip on the connection.  That's the sort of thing connections
were intended for.

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