[R] New to R and need help

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On 14 Oct 2002, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:
>
> > >>>>> "Scott" == Scott Marley <azboater at dakotacom.net>
> > >>>>>     on Mon, 14 Oct 2002 08:34:14 -0700 writes:
> >
> >     Scott> All,
> >
> >     Scott> I just took a cool R workshop and I'm chomping at the
> >     Scott> bit to play around with it.  I'm fairly familiar with
> >     Scott> SAS and have some data that I used with Sas.  My
> >     Scott> question is: How do I take a text file(I think my
> >     Scott> instructor called it a rectangular file) and import
> >     Scott> it to R.  In sas you use an input statement followed
> >     Scott> by Variable name and the column numbers for the
> >     Scott> location of the data.  Does R have a similar
> >     Scott> procedure?  What would the syntax look like?  Thank
> >     Scott> you for any help you can offer.
> >
> > help(read.table)
>
> (Why don't we have examples in there??)

Well, we do have a half a manual (R Data Import/Export) devoted to this,
and that is referenced from the help page.

There is also a chapter of `An Introduction to R' with examples.

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