If you know how many lines to skip, you can set skip=xx in read.table.
The question is what you can do if you have variable lines to skip in
various files but you have characters indicating the begining of the
data, like ~A. What you can do is get the file in using readLines,
use grep to find the
Dear All,
I have many files with a lot of headers and text at the beginning of the file.
The headers are not uniform though and they contain different sizes Is there a
way where I can read a table and skip all of the headers/text on top of it
until I encounter a certain text pattern? Here is a
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