Message-ID: <x24s1bcsrz.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>
Date: 2000-11-14T00:16:16Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: R help for a newby
In-Reply-To: ben@zoo.ufl.edu's message of "Mon, 13 Nov 2000 17:35:29 -0500 (EST)"
ben at zoo.ufl.edu writes:
> I don't actually think there's an easy way to do this; an alternate way
> might be to reformat your data either with fixed-width fields (read.fwf())
> or with separator characters.
..or add NA values to fill the rows with missing observations.
> If you insist, though, here is a (probably
> overly convoluted) way of doing what I think you want. I would welcome
> suggestions for making this more efficient or understandable.
In the development version, scan and read.table now have a fill= argument...
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