[R] scan in R

[peter dalgaard]

On May 12, 2013, at 22:42 , Naser Jamil wrote:

> Dear R-user,
> May I seek your help over a issue, probably a simple one. I just one to
> scan the following numbers, avoiding [1]s, [2]. By the way, I know how to
> scan numbers in the absence of such [1] and [2].
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------
> 
> [1] 18 18 17 14 17 13 13 18 13 16 16 14
> [1] 12 19 15 21 13 17 10 13 18 14 17 13
> [2] 13 15 20 14 18 15 10 12 20 17 17 17
> ------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Any suggestion would be more than great!


The most expedient way would seem to be remove the [1],[2], then scan() what remains.

Something along the lines of

scan(text=substring(readLines(file), 4))

or maybe replace the substring bit with 

sub("\[.*\]", "", readLines(....))

> 
> 
> Regards,
> Jamil.
> 
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