Message-ID: <430C43B0.5090905@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 2005-08-24T09:53:52Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: reading "special" text files
In-Reply-To: <430C345F.1050406@tuebingen.mpg.de>
Jan Wiener wrote:
> hello,
>
> assume you have a txt-file (sep="\t" or "") looking as follows that you
> want to read into a variable:
>
> 1 1 2 3
> 2 1 2 3 4
> 3 1 5 6 7 8
>
> the result should look like this (e.g., in a data.frame):
>
> 1 1 2 3
> 2 1 2 3 4
> 3 1 5 6 7 8
>
> is there any way to do so?
Yes, with e.g. sep="\t" and sep=" " the number of separators is taken
into account.
No, with sep="" the separator is *any* white space.
Uwe Ligges
> thanks in advance,
> jan
>
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