[R] [Rd] Scan data from a .txt file

[Liaw, Andy]

[Re-directing to R-help, as this is more appropriate there.]

I tried copying the snippet of data into the windows clipboard and tried it:

> dat <- read.table("clipboard", header=T)
> dat
    Name Weight Height Gender
1   Anne    150     65      F
2    Rob    160     68      M
3 George    180     65      M
4   Greg    205     69      M
> str(dat)
`data.frame':   4 obs. of  4 variables:
 $ Name  : Factor w/ 4 levels "Anne","George",..: 1 4 2 3
 $ Weight: int  150 160 180 205
 $ Height: int  65 68 65 69
 $ Gender: Factor w/ 2 levels "F","M": 1 2 2 2
> dat <- read.table("clipboard", header=T, row=1)
> str(dat)
`data.frame':   4 obs. of  3 variables:
 $ Weight: int  150 160 180 205
 $ Height: int  65 68 65 69
 $ Gender: Factor w/ 2 levels "F","M": 1 2 2 2
> dat
       Weight Height Gender
Anne      150     65      F
Rob       160     68      M
George    180     65      M
Greg      205     69      M

Don't see how it "doesn't work".  Please give more detail on what "doesn't
work" means.

Andy

> From: Vasundhara Akkineni
> 
> Hi all,
> Am trying to read data from a .txt file in such a way that i 
> can access the
> column names too. For example, the data in the table.txt file 
> is as below:
>  Name Weight Height Gender
> Anne 150 65 F
> Rob 160 68 M
> George 180 65 M
> Greg 205 69 M
>  i used the following commands:
>  data<-scan("table.txt",list("",0,0,0),sep="")
> a<-data[[1]]
> b<-data[[2]]
> c<-data[[3]]
> d<-data[[4]]
>  But this doesn't work because of type mismatch. I want to 
> pull the col
> names also into the respective lists. For example i want 'b' to have
> (weight,150,160,180,205) so that i can access the col name 
> and also the
> induvidual weights. I tried using the read.table method too, 
> but couldn't
> get this working. Can someone suggest a way to do this.
> Thanks,
> Vasu.
> 
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