[R] time series, uneven length

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[R] scanning data into r

Hey I am having trouble importing data into R, my data field looks like this 21 TEST DATA 32 year:2012 33 34 5 36 I require the the number at the start of each line however the text is not needed, i am struggling to get R to import the data with out changing the file itself? how do i impor