Hi. You can try with argument skip in read.csv function(check ?read.csv).
Also, if you want directly to import an Excel file you can use readWorksheet function from XLConnect package and use argument startRow to set up the first row to read from. Hope this helps. Andrija On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:46 AM, jpm miao <miao...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have many xls grade report sheets with the same format > > > > XXX High School Grade Report > > Confidential Yes > > > > Math English Science > > John 90 85 90 > > Mary 75 88 93 > > > > > > Since the reports are prepared on a regular basis, I have many reports with > identical format. Without the title XXX High School Grade Report > > Confidential Yes, I can just change the xls to csv and read them via > read.csv. How can I read the data in the presence of the title? How can I > ask R to skip the title and just read the data? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Miao > > [[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. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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