R-help, I have the following file I want to import to R (some lines removed)
Calibrated CTD data for station:00280001 Calibrated:23/8 2001, Salinity Unsmoothed, Fluorescence Uncalibrated Maximum observed depth: 36 m QUAL has one digit for each of pressure, temp., sal. and fluor. QUAL=1:Uncal., QUAL=2:OK, QUAL=6:Interp., QUAL=9:No data DEPTH CTDPRS CTDTMP CTDSAL RAWFLU NUMB. QUAL M DBAR IPTS-68 PSS-78 OBS. ******* ******* ******* ******* 1 1.0 2999 2 2.0 5.9793 35.1629 .107 17 2221 3 3.0 5.9797 35.1631 .101 17 2221 4 4.0 5.9809 35.1631 .118 12 2221 5 5.1 5.9811 35.1629 .115 42 2221 6 6.1 5.9810 35.1631 .116 18 2221 7 7.1 5.9797 35.1631 .116 15 2221 8 8.1 5.9798 35.1630 .102 13 2221 9 9.1 5.9792 35.1629 .113 11 2221 ............... ................ ......... If I use : read.table(file, skip = 10) it works fine but sometimes the missing data are not only in line number 1 ( 1 1.0 2999) but in lines 1,2,3,,, and therefore R fails to import the data file How can I fix it? I have tried with the arguments strip.white = TRUE , fill = TRUE , blank.lines.skip = TRUE but still not get what I want Thanks in advance > version _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major 2 minor 4.0 year 2006 month 10 day 03 svn rev 39566 language R version.string R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03) ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.