These model generate output files with different sections which I want to analyze plot etc.
Since this will be used many people at the department I wanted to make sure that will do this in the best way.
For instance I want to read a snippets of data from a text that look like this.
-------------------------------
Lots of stuff
...
@@Start Values@@
Column1 Column2 Column3 ...
Row1 1 2 3 ...
...
@@End Values@@
More stuff
...
@@Start OtherValues@@
Column1 Column2 Column3 ...
Row1 1 2 3 ...
...
@@End OtherValues@@I looked in the help files and found grep which operates on character strings, do I have to like this then?
1. Read file with readLines("foo.txt")
2. grep this object for the start and end of each section ->startline & stopline
3. Read the file again with read.table("foo.txt",skip=startline,nrows=stoplin-startline)
Or is there a more beautiful way?
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