Aliases: scan
Keywords: file connection
### ** Examples cat("TITLE extra line", "2 3 5 7", "11 13 17", file = "ex.data", sep = "\n") pp <- scan("ex.data", skip = 1, quiet = TRUE) scan("ex.data", skip = 1)
[1] 2 3 5 7 11 13 17
scan("ex.data", skip = 1, nlines = 1) # only 1 line after the skipped one
[1] 2 3 5 7
scan("ex.data", what = list("","","")) # flush is F -> read "7"
Warning in scan("ex.data", what = list("", "", "")): number of items read is
not a multiple of the number of columns
[[1]] [1] "TITLE" "2" "7" "17" [[2]] [1] "extra" "3" "11" "" [[3]] [1] "line" "5" "13" ""
scan("ex.data", what = list("","",""), flush = TRUE)
[[1]] [1] "TITLE" "2" "11" [[2]] [1] "extra" "3" "13" [[3]] [1] "line" "5" "17"
unlink("ex.data") # tidy up ## "inline" usage scan(text = "1 2 3")
[1] 1 2 3