How to scan concatenated(ish) vectors from a file?

Peter Dalgaard · 2002-12-06T23:21:03Z

David Pearson writes: > Hi, > > I have a text file containing lists of numbers with the > following structure: > > a1,1 a1,2 a1,3 a1,4 a1,5 ... a1,10 > hm1,1 hm1,2 hm1,3 hm1,4 hm1,5 ... hm1,10 > vm1,1 vm1,2 vm1,3 vm1,4 vm1,5 ... vm1,10 > hx1,1 hx1,2 hx1,3 hx1,4 hx1,5 ... hx1,10 > vx1,1 vx1,2 vx1,3 vx1,4 vx1,5 ... vx1,10 > a2,1 a2,2 a2,3 a2,4 a2,5 ... a2,10 > ....... etc. ......... > > [I have pasted in a sample at th

Peter Dalgaard

Fri, Dec 6, 2002 3:21 PM

David Pearson <david.pearson at mail.nerc-essc.ac.uk> writes:

Try:

arr <- array(scan(),c(10,5,2))
a <- arr[,1,]
hm <- arr[,2,]

and so forth. Or:

vlist <- lapply(1:5, function(i)a[,i,])
names(vlist) <- c("a","hm","vm","hx","vx")
vlist$a 
vlist$hm

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