[R] re ading and analyzing a text file

[(Ted Harding)]

On 16-May-08 14:35:18, Yasir Kaheil wrote:
> 
> use the parameter 'skip' in read.table
> 
> dat<-read.table("filename",skip=number of rows you want to skip)
> 
> thanks
> y

Or, ironically, you can use scan(...,skip=number of rows to skip)!
See ?scan.

Best wishes,
Ted.

> DAVID ARTETA GARCIA wrote:
>> 
>> Dear list,
>> 
>> I have a text file from a scanner that includes 20 lines of text  
>> (scanner settings) before it actually starts showing the readings in a
>> tabular format (headings are ID, intensity, background and few
>> others).
>> 
>> I am a biologist with some experience using R and my question is if it
>> is possible to read this file into an R workspace and store the actual
>> readings in a dataframe, avoiding the text at the begining. It seems  
>> to me that this is not the actual purpose of R, but maybe someone can 
>> point me to a method for doing this. Do I need to parse the file with 
>> some other programming language? is it possible to link, say, Perl or 
>> C++ with R to automate the reading and the analysis of such files? The
>> aim is to be able to automate this analysis since these files are our 
>> routine experimental output.
>> 
>> Thanks for your help,
>> 
>> D.
>> 
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> 
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