One way is to first read in the data with readLines. This will create a character vector of the input lines. You can then remove the lines you want and then use textConnect to read in the modified data:
x <- readLines(file) x <- x[-c(2,3)] # delete lines two and three input <- read.table(textConnection(x), header=TRUE) On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Ole Roessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > I want to do some analyses with data originating from a hydrological model > that are saved in multiple output files. > I want to import the output-files in R without a treatment like > preproceesing every output file. > The output file is more or less a matrix, but with additional rows in the > header, describing the type of data. > My question is: > 1. Is there a possibility to skip the rows or start with a certain row? > I want to exclude row 2 and 3, so the first line become the header of the > list below. > This is the beginning of the output file to be imported. > YY MM DD HH "1" "2" "3" "4" "5" tot_average > total runoff [mm per zone] (sum of QB, QI und QD)_submodel:unsatzon_model > -- -- -- -- 0.1466624 0.2958042 0.2225048 0.2279085 > 0.1071202 1.0000 > 2001 1 1 1 0.055242 0.037391 0.051550 0.057681 > 0.021070 0.046036 > 2001 1 1 2 0.051288 0.032404 0.047027 0.056636 > 0.021070 0.042736 > 2001 1 1 3 0.052491 0.032937 0.048042 0.058415 > 0.021070 0.043701 > 2001 1 1 4 0.051389 0.032508 0.047136 0.056663 > 0.021070 0.042812 > 2001 1 1 5 0.050730 0.032263 0.046599 0.055585 > 0.021070 0.042278 > Would be a great help if there is a possibility. > Thank you very much ! > best regards > Ole > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > > > Ole Röà ler > > PhD - student > > Climatology and Landscape-Ecology Research Group > > Department of Geography > > University of Bonn > > > Postal Address: > > Meckenheimer Allee 166 > > 53115 Bonn > > Germany > > > > Tel.: +49-(0)228-737895 > > Fax.: +49-(0)228-737506 > > > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Homepage: > [2]http://www.giub.uni-bonn.de/loeffler/people/people_sites/roessler.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > References > > 1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2. http://www.giub.uni-bonn.de/loeffler/people/people_sites/roessler.htm > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
