Message-ID: <4280DA16.1060007@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Date: 2005-05-10T15:58:14Z
From: Michael Graber
Subject: converting an ASCII file to a matrix
Dear R-WinEdit users,
I have a simple question, but somehow I cannot find the answer even
though I tried a lot!
I have an unstructured ASCII-file and I want to import it into a matrix
m in R, so that every character is defined by m[i;j]. The rows are not
of the same length.
The file looks like the following shortened abstract example:
name: xxxxx xxxx
age: 9.9.99
record number: 999
title: xxxxx xxxx xxx
keywords: xxx xx
"white space"
name: yyyy yyyyyyyyyyyy
age: 8.8.88
record number: 8
title: yyyy yy yyyy
keywords: yyyyyyyyyyy yyyyyyyy yyy
"white space"
The result should be for example: m[1;1]=n
I would be very grateful for your help!
Michael Graber
michael.graber at mail.uni-wuerzburg.de