What have you tried?

What type of file are you trying to import from?

What do you want your data to look like in R?

take a look at ?read.table and ?readLines


On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:23 AM, joel.green <joel.green@live.co.uk> wrote:

> Hey
>
> I am having trouble importing data into R, my data field looks like this
>
> 21  TEST DATA
> 32  year:2012
> 33
> 34
>  5
> 36
>
> I require the the number at the start of each line however the text is not
> needed, i am struggling to get R to import the data with out changing the
> file itself?
>
> how do i import the data, i have tried using comment.char=" ", however this
> didnt work, any help would be much appreciated thanks
>
>
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