[R] Reading first line before using read.table()

So far I have figured out that the following line reads our time series files into R OK. dtLs$dta - read.table(C:/TryRRead/datFiles/JFeqfi4h.rta, header = TRUE, sep = ,, colClasses = character) But I have to remove a main-title line so that the first line is the column titles line. This leads

Re: [R] Reading first line before using read.table()

Hi, On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Hurr hill0...@umn.edu wrote: So far I have figured out that the following line reads our time series files into R OK. dtLs$dta - read.table(C:/TryRRead/datFiles/JFeqfi4h.rta, header = TRUE, sep = ,, colClasses = character) But I have to remove a main-title

Re: [R] Reading first line before using read.table()

try this: # test data temp - tempfile() writeLines(text = main title line + a b # table header + 1 2 + 3 4 + 5 6, temp) input - file(temp, 'r') # connection for reading # read main main - readLines(input, n = 1) rest - read.table(input, header = TRUE) close(input) main [1] main title

Re: [R] Reading first line before using read.table()

Thanks so much. The following are the actual lines I used for testing, and they worked. titleline - readLines(C:/ad/dta/TryRRead/pureCos2.dta, n=1) print(titleline) dta - read.table(C:/ad/dta/TryRRead/pureCos2.dta, skip = 1, header = TRUE, sep = ,, colClasses = character) linDta -