Re: [R] Fread: add one to skip string identifier

Hi Jim, Thanks,Jim. I couldn't get fread to work either for this. I ended up with this: txt<- readLines('test_fread.dat'); data.frame1 <- read.table(text=txt, sep='', header=FALSE, skip=grep('*END*', txt)) BTW, i use that Map Rose function you wrote a few years back quite often. Thanks for the

Re: [R] Fread: add one to skip string identifier

Hi Trevor, I couldn't work out how to do it with just fread, but perhaps this will help: # create a test file sink("test_fread.dat") cat("This is the header of a file\n") cat("that ends with the word *end*\n") cat("Col1 Col2\n1 2\n3 4\n5 6\n") sink() # try to read it test_con<-file("test_fread.dat

[R] Fread: add one to skip string identifier

I'm trying to read in a file using the function fread. The file that I'm trying to read in has about 100 lines of information I don't want prior to getting to my matrix of data that I do want. On the line prior to the data I want there is always a string identifier "*end*" The following fread ca