[R] scan in R
peter dalgaard
pdalgd at gmail.com
Mon May 13 00:16:57 CEST 2013
On May 12, 2013, at 22:42 , Naser Jamil wrote:
> Dear R-user,
> May I seek your help over a issue, probably a simple one. I just one to
> scan the following numbers, avoiding [1]s, [2]. By the way, I know how to
> scan numbers in the absence of such [1] and [2].
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> [1] 18 18 17 14 17 13 13 18 13 16 16 14
> [1] 12 19 15 21 13 17 10 13 18 14 17 13
> [2] 13 15 20 14 18 15 10 12 20 17 17 17
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> Any suggestion would be more than great!
The most expedient way would seem to be remove the [1],[2], then scan() what remains.
Something along the lines of
scan(text=substring(readLines(file), 4))
or maybe replace the substring bit with
sub("\[.*\]", "", readLines(....))
>
>
> Regards,
> Jamil.
>
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