[R] Importing with read.table

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"Balint, Jess" <JBalint at alldata.net> writes:

> Hi all. I have something similar to the following:
> 
> myinfo <- read.table( file = "myfile.txt", sep = "|", col.name = c( "data1",
> "data2" ) )
> 
> myfile.txt:
> a|1|
> b|2|
> 
> However, since there are two pipe (|) characters, it reads it in and thinks
> there should be three columns. This is not the case and I get a warning
> about col.names is wrong length. Is there a way around this? Thanks.

You might use scan and its `flush' argument, or simply

 myinfo <- read.table( file = "myfile.txt", sep = "|")[-3]
 names(myinfo) <- c("data1", "data2")

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