Re: [R] Read the data from a text file and reshape the data

Hi Arun, Thank you so much for your answer. It surely does help. Having to know different approaches for the same problem has given me more insights on R language. I appreciate your time and effort. Best, Janesh Devkota On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:00 PM, arun wrote: > Hi, > May be this helps:

Re: [R] Read the data from a text file and reshape the data

Hi, May be this helps:  lines1<- readLines("WAT_DEP.DAT.part") indx<- which(grepl("[*]",lines1)) indx2<-indx[seq(from=indx[2],length(indx),by=2)]+1 lines2<-str_trim(lines1[indx2],side="left") dat1<-read.table(text=lines2,sep="",header=FALSE) library(stringr) lst1<- lapply(split(indx,((seq_along(in

Re: [R] Read the data from a text file and reshape the data

the data from a text file and reshape the data Is this what you are looking for: > input <- readLines("C:\\Users\\Owner\\Downloads\\WAT_DEP.DAT") > start <- grep("N:SNAPSHOT", input) # find start of the data > # add index of what would have been the l

Re: [R] Read the data from a text file and reshape the data

Is this what you are looking for: > input <- readLines("C:\\Users\\Owner\\Downloads\\WAT_DEP.DAT") > start <- grep("N:SNAPSHOT", input) # find start of the data > # add index of what would have been the last block > start <- c(start, tail(start, 1) + 53L) > # now read in the data using 'text' par