[R] Reading complicated data file

[Jens Nieschulze]

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 zlamal at ufi.fme.vutbr.cz wrote:

%Hi, I am new in R and I have problem with reading this data file
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%0 TITLE Title
% 0 XLEGEND Legend
%-1 LABEL x
%1 1 12
%1 2 30
%1 3 34
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%I want to read only lines starting with 1 (it indicates 1st plotting line) 
%and create data set from second and third value on this row.

what about using read.table(....,skip=3) and later subsetting your
dataframe to the two desired columns?

%
%Thank for advice
%Jakub Zlamal
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