Re: [R] Help with parsing a data file

Try this: lines <- readLines('yourfile') newLines <- lines[-(1:(13+3))] coln <- scan(textConnection(lines[3]), what="") lapply(which(nchar(newLines) == 4), function(x)read.table(textConnection(newLines[seq(x + 1, x + 13)]), col.names=coln)) On 06/03/2008, sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Al

Re: [R] Help with parsing a data file

: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sean > Sent: Friday, 7 March 2008 8:06 a.m. > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Help with parsing a data file > > Hi All, > > I need to parse data from a file, example shown below. The > first two lines ca

[R] Help with parsing a data file

Hi All, I need to parse data from a file, example shown below. The first two lines can be skipped, the third line contains the column names. The next 13 lines can be skipped. The next line "1991" is a year value, with the following 13 values data for that year. The file then repeats this forma