[R] question about read datafile

[jim holtman]

Read in the data using readLines to read the complete line.  Use
grep/regexpr to scan for valid lines and then convert them to numeric
by using strsplit/as.numeric.

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Lu, Zheng <Zheng.Lu at mpi.com> wrote:
> Dear all:
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> I have been thinking to import below one data file (.txt)into R by
> read.table(..,skip=1, header=T). But How can I deal with the repeated
> rows of TABLE NO.1 and names of data variables in the middle of this
> data file. The similar block will be repeated 100 times, here only show
> 4 of them and within each block, data records also can vary, here only
> paste 4 rows for example. I appreciate your consideration and help in
> this holiday season. Happy Holiday!
>
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> TABLE NO.  1
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>          ID         GID        TIME         OBS         AMT        EVID
> RATE        ADDL          II         CMT          WT        IPRE
>
>  3.1000E+01  1.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  1.0000E+00  1.0000E+00
> 0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  4.0000E+00  2.4000E-02  3.3918E+02
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>  3.1000E+01  1.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  2.0500E+02  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00
> 0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  4.0000E+00  2.4000E-02  2.6267E+02
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>  3.1000E+01  1.0000E+00  9.6000E+01  4.2100E+02  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00
> 0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  4.0000E+00  2.4000E-02  3.1781E+02
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> TABLE NO.  1
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>          ID         GID        TIME         OBS         AMT        EVID
> RATE        ADDL          II         CMT          WT        IPRE
>
>  3.1000E+01  1.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  1.0000E+00  1.0000E+00
> 0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  4.0000E+00  2.4000E-02  5.7557E+01
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>  3.1000E+01  1.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  2.0500E+02  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00
> 0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  4.0000E+00  2.4000E-02  8.8583E+01
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>  3.1000E+01  1.0000E+00  9.6000E+01  4.2100E+02  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00
> 0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  4.0000E+00  2.4000E-02  1.7342E+02
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>  3.1000E+01  1.0000E+00  1.6800E+02  5.3100E+02  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00
> 0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  4.0000E+00  2.4000E-02  2.0179E+02
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> TABLE NO.  1
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>          ID         GID        TIME         OBS         AMT        EVID
> RATE        ADDL          II         CMT          WT        IPRE
>
>  3.1000E+01  1.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  1.0000E+00  1.0000E+00
> 0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  4.0000E+00  2.4000E-02  1.4389E+02
>
>  3.1000E+01  1.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  2.0500E+02  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00
> 0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  4.0000E+00  2.4000E-02  2.6147E+02
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>  3.1000E+01  1.0000E+00  9.6000E+01  4.2100E+02  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00
> 0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  4.0000E+00  2.4000E-02  2.2634E+02
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>  3.1000E+01  1.0000E+00  1.6800E+02  5.3100E+02  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00
> 0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  4.0000E+00  2.4000E-02  4.0733E+02
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> TABLE NO.  1
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>          ID         GID        TIME         OBS         AMT        EVID
> RATE        ADDL          II         CMT          WT        IPRE
>
>  3.1000E+01  1.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  1.0000E+00  1.0000E+00
> 0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  4.0000E+00  2.4000E-02  2.2003E+02
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>  3.1000E+01  1.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  2.0500E+02  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00
> 0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  4.0000E+00  2.4000E-02  3.2116E+02
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>  3.1000E+01  1.0000E+00  9.6000E+01  4.2100E+02  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00
> 0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  4.0000E+00  2.4000E-02  3.3642E+02
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>  3.1000E+01  1.0000E+00  1.6800E+02  5.3100E+02  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00
> 0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  0.0000E+00  4.0000E+00  2.4000E-02  4.7881E+02
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