removing lines from text file
On 23-08-2012, at 07:22, Doug Edmunds wrote:
I downloaded a text file which has several lines of text before the header line of the data, similar to this: ---start--- "Corn December 2012 (CZ2012)" Source: Wikiposit Open Data via wikiposit.org (http://wikiposit.org/uid?FUTURE.CZ2012) Update: http://wikiposit.org/w?action=dl&dltypes=comma%20separated&sp=daily&uid=FUTURE.CZ2012 Date,Open,High,Low,Settle,Volume,OpenInt, 08-Jun-2009,0,469.5,469.5,469.5,0,0, 09-Jun-2009,0,476.75,469.5,476.75,0,0, ... After I download the file using R, how do I remove the lines of text that appear before the header line (Date, Open, ...)?
?read.table Use the argument skip of the read.XXX functions (XXX=table, csv,csv2 etc.) Berend