Importing ASCII flat
On 17.05.2012 14:17, Richard Iles wrote:
I am trying to import Indian National Sample Survey Data. It is ASCII flat and an example is below 001460306025001117101011117111201*01*000000211 270104070204093 002460306025001117101011117111201*02*0000008011116104910519572 022 2600 1150 30 55 170 4005 003460306025001117101011117111201*03* 0000111039204112 222
Do you have a file format specification? This is probably some fixed width formatted file, hence read.fwf may help to import the data. See ?read.fwf and the R Data Import/Export manual. Best, Uwe Ligges
Previous post don't seem to provide much help. I have an document outlining
the layout of the data, but don't know how to start. An example of the
layout is that the values in bold indicate separate levels.Example of
layout is below:
Sl.No. Item Blk Item Col Len Byte Position Remarks 1 Common Items
33 1 - 33 Auto-duplicated 2 Level 2 34 - 35 "02" Generated 3 Filler
5 36 - 40 "00000" Generated 4 HHS Size 3 1 2 41 - 42 5 NIC Code(5-digit)
3 2 5 43 - 47 6 NCO Code(3-digit) 3 3 3 48 - 50 7 HHS type 3 4 1 51 -
51 8 Religion 3 5 1 52 - 52
As is obvious, I am relatively new to R. Any constructive advice would be
welcome.
Richard Iles