On 23-08-2012, at 07:22, Doug Edmunds wrote: > I downloaded a text file which has several lines of text before the header > line of the data, similar to this: > > ---start--- > "Corn December 2012 (CZ2012)" > Source: Wikiposit Open Data via wikiposit.org > (http://wikiposit.org/uid?FUTURE.CZ2012) > Update: > http://wikiposit.org/w?action=dl&dltypes=comma%20separated&sp=daily&uid=FUTURE.CZ2012 > > Date,Open,High,Low,Settle,Volume,OpenInt, > 08-Jun-2009,0,469.5,469.5,469.5,0,0, > 09-Jun-2009,0,476.75,469.5,476.75,0,0, > ... > > After I download the file using R, how do I remove the lines of text > that appear before the header line (Date, Open, ...)? >
?read.table Use the argument skip of the read.XXX functions (XXX=table, csv,csv2 etc.) Berend ______________________________________________ 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.
