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3 messages · j daniel, jim holtman, David Winsemius

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Greetings,

I am not familiar with processing text in R.  Can someone tell me how to
read each line of words as separate elements in a list?

FE, I would like to turn:

word1 word2 word3
word2 word4

into a list of length two with three character elements in the first list
and two elements in the second.  I know that this should be easy, but I am a
little confused by the text functions.

Thanks in advance!
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Is this what you want:
+ word2 word4"))
[[1]]
[1] "word1" "word2" "word3"

[[2]]
[1] "word2" "word4"

        
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:00 PM, j daniel <jdlecy at maxwell.syr.edu> wrote:

  
    
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On Nov 2, 2009, at 8:00 PM, j daniel wrote:

            
> txt <- textConnection("word1 word2 word3
+ word2 word4")
 > strsplit(readLines(txt), " ")
[[1]]
[1] "word1" "word2" "word3"

[[2]]
[1] "word2" "word4"