[R] read tab delimited file from a certain line

[arun]

Lines1 <- readLines(con = textConnection(
"informations (unknown count of lines)
... and at some point the table
------
year month mday value
2013 1 16 0 "))

 indx<-seq(match(regmatches(Lines1,regexpr("^year.*",Lines1)),Lines1),length(Lines1))
read.table(text=Lines1[indx],sep="",header=TRUE)
#  year month mday value
#1 2013     1   16     0
A.K.




----- Original Message -----
From: Christof Kluß <ckluss at email.uni-kiel.de>
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
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Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 9:17 AM
Subject: [R] read tab delimited file from a certain line

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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