Re: [R] Trouble pulling data from a messy ASCII file...

2008-12-17 Thread Titan8883
d what would be the > 'headings'. As mentioned before, you can use readLines and then parse > the data you want, but something like Perl might be easier, but it is > hard to tell from the mail. > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Titan8883 wrote: >> >> Hi all, &

[R] Trouble pulling data from a messy ASCII file...

2008-12-17 Thread Titan8883
Hi all, I am a new graduate student who is also new to R. I am ok with the basics, but the problem I am having right now seems beyond what I can do..so I am looking for advice. I am trying to pull data from flat ASCII files, but they do not have a "nice" structure so a simple "read.table" doesn't