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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