it seems it will work, however, the last line of code did not work, so I can not check the results. thanks,
jholtman wrote > > try this by reformatting the data and then reading back in: > > >> x <- readLines(textConnection("TABLE NO. 1 > + ID TIME > + 1325 0 > + 1325 0 > + TABLE NO. 1 > + ID TIME > + 1325 0 > + 1325 0 > + TABLE NO. 1 > + ID TIME > + 1325 0 > + 1325 0 > + TABLE NO. 1 > + ID TIME > + 1325 0 > + 1325 0")) >> >> # remove "TABLE" >> x <- x[-grep("^TABLE", x)] >> >> # remove all but first "ID" >> x <- x[-grep("^ID", x)[-1]] >> >> # now create temporary file with the data to re-read >> fileName <- tempfile() >> writeLines(x, fileName) >> >> # now read in the data > />* read.table(fileName, header = TRUE)*/ > > ID TIME > 1 1325 0 > 2 1325 0 > 3 1325 0 > 4 1325 0 > 5 1325 0 > 6 1325 0 > 7 1325 0 > 8 1325 0 >> >> > > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:08 AM, york8866 <yu_york@> wrote: >> I have a table like the following: >> >> TABLE NO. 1 >> ID TIME >> 1325 0 >> 1325 0 >> . . >> . . >> . . >> TABLE NO. 1 >> ID TIME >> 1325 0 >> 1325 0 >> . . >> . . >> . . >> TABLE NO. 1 >> ID TIME >> 1325 0 >> 1325 0 >> . . >> . . >> . . >> TABLE NO. 1 >> ID TIME >> 1325 0 >> 1325 0 >> . . >> . . >> . . >> >> I used the following code: >> sim <- read.table("sim.tab", skip=1, as.is=T,header=T) >> it did not work, as there're rows with characters in between the data. >> Can anyone help me to read the table, while get rid of the character rows >> in >> between the data? >> thanks, >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/can-not-read-a-table-tp4633971.html >> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@ mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > -- > Jim Holtman > Data Munger Guru > > What is the problem that you are trying to solve? > Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@ mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/can-not-read-a-table-tp4633971p4633994.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.