[R] R -- for help

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Look at the `fill' argument in ?read.table.

This fills with NAs, but you can convert those to 0's later (although
it may be better to do this in the analysis).

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, jbwu wrote:

> hi, guys:
> I have a question on how to read data from file in which the length of each 
> line is unfixed.
> 
> For instance, the data in sample.dat are:
> 1 2 3 4
> 5 6 7
> 8
> 
> I want to read this kind of data into a matrix as:
> 1 2 3 4
> 5 6 7 0
> 8 0 0 0

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