How to Import a CSV file containing multiple sections into R?
- by PaulHurleyuk
I want to import the contents of a csv file into R, the csv file contains multiple sections of data vertically, seperated by blank lines and asterisks. For example
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* SAMPLE DATA ******************************************
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Name, DOB, Sex
Rod, 1/1/1970, M
Jane, 5/7/1980, F
Freddy, 9.12,1965, M
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* Income Data ****************************************
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Name, Income
Rod, 10000
Jane, 15000
Freddy, 7500
I would like to import this into R as two seperate dataframes. Currently I'm manually cutting the csv file up into smaller files, but I think I could do it using read.csv and the skip and nrows settings of read.csv, If I could work out where the secion breaks are.
This gives me a logical TRUE for every blank line
ifelse(readLines("DATA.csv")=="",TRUE,FALSE)
I'm hoping someone has already solved this problem.