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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