Message-ID: <1CE6799D-8FEC-4DEC-9299-7CF7CAA8A17E@gmail.com>
Date: 2011-04-22T17:38:52Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: Can R replicate this data manipulation in SAS?
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikmfiuWza+kbErJ6mbx+ZWuuYxs5A@mail.gmail.com>
On Apr 22, 2011, at 18:50 , Douglas Bates wrote:
> What about reading a deck of punched cards with the cards statement in
> SAS? How do you propose to do that in R?
Actually, with the new text= argument to read.table in r-devel, it should be rather easy.... (given that you can find a card-punch and punched-card reader, of course).
(And it's "datalines" nowadays, although everyone still uses "cards"...)
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