On May 12, 2013, at 22:42 , Naser Jamil wrote: > Dear R-user, > May I seek your help over a issue, probably a simple one. I just one to > scan the following numbers, avoiding [1]s, [2]. By the way, I know how to > scan numbers in the absence of such [1] and [2]. > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > [1] 18 18 17 14 17 13 13 18 13 16 16 14 > [1] 12 19 15 21 13 17 10 13 18 14 17 13 > [2] 13 15 20 14 18 15 10 12 20 17 17 17 > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Any suggestion would be more than great!
The most expedient way would seem to be remove the [1],[2], then scan() what remains. Something along the lines of scan(text=substring(readLines(file), 4)) or maybe replace the substring bit with sub("\[.*\]", "", readLines(....)) > > > Regards, > Jamil. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.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.