[R] Unwanted Levels in R

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"MATT BORKOWSKI" <mpb170 at psu.edu> writes:

> is there anyway to overcome it?  Here are a few lines of the data I'm 
> attempting to read in:
> 
> A  900003024 ODEN   SWEDEN  ODEN91 NSIDC.ORG/PROJE 
> B     900003         -9  1 NAN OBS         0
> C 1991  9  7 13 -9 XX   90.0000     .0000 XX
> D    36   10.0   10.1 4183.0 4270.7 4219.0 Z 13  0 OBSERV
> E    -9.0   -9.0 -9.0000 -9.0000 -9.0000 -9.0000 -9.0000 -9.0000 -9.0000 
>    10.0   10.1 -1.6970 -1.6971 31.4940 25.3287 34.8044 43.8535 -9.0000 
> 
> Here are the commands I have tried using to read in the data:
> 
> >alldata <- read.table("/home/mattb/xxx.dat", fill = TRUE, quote = "")
> 
> >alldata <- as.list(read.table("/home/mattb/xxx.dat", fill = TRUE, quote = "")

As far as I can see, there is no connection between values in the same
position in different lines? If so, trying to make a data frame out of
the file is simply inappropriate and you should rather use ReadLines
and postprocess the lines according to whatever logic they are
supposed to obey.

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