[R] How can I ask R to skip the title when reading the data?

[Pascal Oettli]

Hi,

You didn't read the help file carefully enough.

?read.csv

"skip" argument.

Regards,
Pascal


On 04/18/2013 04:46 PM, jpm miao wrote:
> I have many xls grade report sheets with the same format
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> XXX High School Grade Report
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> Confidential Yes
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>     Math English Science
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> John 90 85 90
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> Mary 75 88 93
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> ……
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> Since the reports are prepared on a regular basis, I have many reports with
> identical format. Without the title “XXX High School Grade Report
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> Confidential Yes”, I can just change the xls to csv and read them via
> read.csv. How can I read the data in the presence of the title? How can I
> ask R to skip the title and just read the data?
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> Thanks,
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> Miao
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