data management
? gsub
>
> gsub("\\(|\\)", "", var)
You can then read.table on a textConnection.
> read.table(textConnection(gsub("\\(|\\)", "", var) ))
V1 V2
1 p1 10
2 p1 3
3 p1 4
4 p2 20
5 p2 30
6 p2 40
7 p3 4
8 p3 1
9 p1 2
On Jan 18, 2009, at 12:13 PM, oscar linares wrote:
Dear Rxperts, I have a varaibles data file that looks like this p(1) 10 p(1) 3 p(1) 4 p(2) 20 p(2) 30 p(2) 40 p(3) 4 p(3) 1 p(1) 2 I cannot process these data with R because it does not like the parentheses. How can I get these to look like: p1 10 p1 3 p1 4 p2 20 p2 30 p2 40 p3 4 p3 1 p3 2 The data is in a tab delimited text file and I want to get it into a data.frame(). Many thanks in advance. OAL p1 p1 -- Oscar Oscar A. Linares Molecular Medicine Unit Bolles Harbor Monroe, Michigan [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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