[R] read tab delimited file from a certain line

[Rui Barradas]

Hello,

Read the file using readLines, then grep "^year". You can then use a 
textConnection to read.table:

x <- readLines(con = textConnection(
"informations (unknown count of lines)
... and at some point the table
------
year month mday value
2013 1 16 0 "))

# This is it
i <- grep("^year", x)
read.table(textConnection(x[i:length(x)]), header = TRUE)


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 16-01-2013 14:17, Christof Kluß escreveu:
> Hi
>
> I would like to read table data from a text-files with extra 
> informations in the header (of unknown line count). Example:
>
> informations (unknown count of lines)
> ... and at some point the table
> ------
> year month mday value
> 2013 1 16 0
> ...
>
> If it was an excel file I could use something like read.xls(..., 
> pattern="year") But it is a simple tab seperated text-file. Is there 
> an easy way to read only the table? (Without dirty things ;))
>
> Thx
> Christof
>
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