[R] Scan and read.table

[jim holtman]

How do you want to extract the data?  You can use 'readLines' to read
in the data and then 'grep' to find the header lines and delete them.
On the other hand, do you want to separate each section into a
differnet object/list?  You can again use readLines and determine
where the breaks are and then split the data into different segments
to read in.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Santosh<santosh2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear R experts..
>
> I am trying to read data-sections in a large consolidated dataset,
> containing section headers and the data . There are many options available
> to implement, I was wondering what optimal function, to extract section
> headers and data (w/ columns), could be used on the dataset that looks like
> as provided at the end of this email? In each section of a dataset, 1st line
> of the section is a table title, followed by names of the columns and rows
> of data.
>
> TABLE NO.  4: MCMC Bayesian Analysis
>  ITERATION    THETA1       THETA2         THETA3        THETA4
> SIGMA(1,1)   OMEGA(1,1)   OMEGA(2,2)   OBJ
>       -10000  1.63523E+00  1.56116E+00  7.51601E-01  2.35158E+00
> 5.71097E-02  1.66941E-01  1.39843E-01   -2573
>        -9999  1.60770E+00  1.48763E+00  7.25607E-01  2.41005E+00
> 4.15829E-02  1.75023E-01  1.14078E-01   -2588
>        -9998  1.67015E+00  1.50197E+00  8.04380E-01  2.32958E+00
> 4.60430E-02  1.68910E-01  1.70382E-01   -2548
>        -9997  1.60714E+00  1.56161E+00  7.36944E-01  2.37716E+00
> 4.96144E-02  1.35797E-01  1.62153E-01   -2539
>
> Thanks
> Santosh
>
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