[R] .gct file

[mark salsburg]

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 <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> 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
>