Hi, I am trying to read in weather balloon data, where each file has a header of fixed length and a trailing section of a fixed length. The data section (the table) is of variable length.
An example of the data is on: http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/sounding?region=naconf&TYPE=TEXT%3ALIST&YEAR=2011&MONTH=06&FROM=1400&TO=1400&STNM=04018 This data has 97 rows and can be read as: read.table("http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/sounding?region=naconf&TYPE=TEXT%3ALIST&YEAR=2011&MONTH=06&FROM=1400&TO=1400&STNM=04018",skip=10,nrows=97) If I set nrows=98 I run into the trailing section. >From day to day the table length changes. Is there a way to get read.table to >always read in the correct length and just stop when it hits the trailing section? Sincerely, Halld ór ------ Halldór Björnsson Sérfræðingur/Research Scientist Veðurstofu Íslands/Icelandic Met. Office [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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