read.fortran format
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Steven Yen <syen04 at gmail.com> wrote:
Dear fellow R users:
I am reading a data (ascii) file with fortran fixed format, containing
multiple records. R does not recognize fortran's record break (a slash).
I tried to do the following but it does not work. Help appreciated.
60 FORMAT(1X,F6.0,5F8.6/1X,5F8.4,F10.6/1X,2F6.0,3E15.9,F8.0,F5.2,F5.3
* /1X,F7.0,2E15.9,F9.4,F5.3)
mydata<-read.fortran("G:/Journals/Disk1/12_restat_95/estimate/GROUPD.DAT",
??
c("1X","F6.0","5F8.6"/"1X","5F8.4","F10.6"
/"1X","2F6.0","3E15.9","F8.0","F5.2","F5.3"
/"1X","F7.0","2E15.9","F9.4","F5.3"),
??
col.names=c("year","w1","w2","w3","w4","w5","w6","v1","v2","v3",
"v4","v5","v6","z","chyes","chno","ec","vc","cvc",
"pop","ahs","fah","tnh","eq","vq","ups","zm1 "))
?Did you see this from ?read.fortran
<quote>
For a single-line record, ?format? should be a character vector.
For a multiline record it should be a list with a character vector
for each line.
</quote>?
?I think (not sure) you need:
mydata<-read.frotran("G:/Journals/Disk1/12_restat_95/estimate/GROUPD.DAT",
list(c("1X","F6.0","5F8.6"),c("1X","5F8.4","F10.6"),c("1X","2F6.0","3E15.9","F8.0","F5.2","F5.3"),c("1X","F7.0","2E15.9","F9.4","F5.3")).
?
col.names=c("year","w1","w2","w3","w4","w5","w6","v1","v2","v3",
"v4","v5","v6","z","chyes","chno","ec","vc","cvc",
"pop","ahs","fah","tnh","eq","vq","ups","zm1 "))
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