[R] manipulating strings

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Stephen Nyangoma <S.Nyangoma <at> cs.rug.nl> writes:

: 
: Hi
: I have a called fil consisting of the following strings.
: 
: > fil
:   [1] " 102.2 639"   " 104.2 224"   " 105.1 1159"  " 107.1 1148"  
:       " 108.1 1376"
:   [6] " 109.2 1092"  " 111.2 1238"  " 112.2 349"   " 113.1 1204"  
:       " 114.1 537"
:  [11] " 115.0 303"   " 116.1 490"   " 117.2 202"   " 118.1 1864"  
:       " 119.0 357"
: 
: I want to get a data frame like
: 
: Time    Obs
: 102.2   639
: 104.2   224
: 105.1  1159
: 107.1  1148
: 108.1  1376
: 109.2  1092
: 111.2  1238
: 112.2   349
: 113.1  1204  
: 114.1   537
: etc
: 
: Can anyone see an efficient way of doing this?

textConnection can be used to allow read.table to read them
as if it were reading from a file:

   read.table(textConnection(fil), col.names = c("Time", "Obs"))