thanks to all for the solutions. Especially to Jim H for this one which
worked perfectly...
(i only had to change the seperater on the header to /t as there are spaces
in header names)
----------------
Try this:
> x <- readLines(textConnection("main data file - file 1
+ by mr x
+ etc
+
+
+ Time out1
+ Sec mm
+ 0.82495117 -0.020977303
+ 1.3554688 -0.059330709
+ 1.826416 -0.021419302
+ 2.3295898 -0.051521059
+ 2.8347168 -0.020661414
+
+
+ Time out1
+ Sec mm
+ 3.8679199 -0.000439643
+ 4.3322754 -0.063477799
+ 4.8015137 -0.024581354
+ 5.3286133 -0.067487299
+ 5.8212891 -0.011978489"))
> closeAllConnections()
> # remove blanks
> x <- x[x != ""]
> # get the lines with numbers
> indx.num <- grep("^[-0-9]", x)
> header <- x[indx.num[1] - 2]
> input <- read.table(textConnection(x[indx.num]))
> names(input) <- strsplit(header, "\\s+")[[1]]
> input
beyar wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have tab delimited text files containing numerical data,
> like below, but many more columns.
>
> As you can see, the first few lines are heading and file data. I need to
> skip these lines. 2 lines above where the numbers start is what I want to
> use as my header rows. I then want to ignore the next line (containing
> units) and start importing data.
>
> The header row repeats. i want to ignore the blank rows and text in the
> data and then continue reading. Is there an easy way to do this?
>
> thanks
> Beyar
>
>
> -------------------------
> main data file - file 1
> by mr x
> etc
>
>
> Time out1
> Sec mm
> 0.82495117 -0.020977303
> 1.3554688 -0.059330709
> 1.826416 -0.021419302
> 2.3295898 -0.051521059
> 2.8347168 -0.020661414
>
>
> Time out1
> Sec mm
> 3.8679199 -0.000439643
> 4.3322754 -0.063477799
> 4.8015137 -0.024581354
> 5.3286133 -0.067487299
> 5.8212891 -0.011978489
>
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>
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