On Mar 28, 2012, at 2:23 PM, joel.green 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
> read.table(text="21 TEST DATA
+ 32 year:2012
+ 33
+ 34
+ 5
+ 36", fill=TRUE)[1]
V1
1 21
2 32
3 33
4 34
5 5
6 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?
Use , fill =TRUE) and then throw away everything except the first
column. Could also use readLines and split on " " and take first
element with sapply( ..., "[" , 1)
how do i import the data, i have tried using comment.char=" ",
however this
didnt work, any help would be much appreciated thanks
--
David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT
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