[R] large lines of data

[Adaikalavan Ramasamy]

How does the data look and how are you storing in R (e.g. matrix, list)?

I think this an issue related to Word where it is using either unequal
spaces or different carriage returns. I would not recommend storing
data, especially numerical ones in the form of a matrix, in Word files. 

I would recommend that you try to copy-and-paste into Excel first and
clean it up there. Next save the file as tab delimited and use
read.delim() in R. 

My experience is that that Excel seems understands the oddities of Word
better than R does.

Regards, Adai


On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 11:55 +0000, Sara Mouro wrote:
> Dear All,
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> I have to enter many lines of data in the same object.
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> I usually use copy-paste to transfer data from an Word file to R.
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> But, for large lines of data, R gets "confused" and gives an error message,
> i.e. it breaks one line somewhere, and lines get no meaning at all.
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> Some times I solve that problem adding "enters" and making each line
> shorter, before I do copy-paste. Some times I add "spaces" in the word
> document, until R breaks each line (automatically adds a +) in any point
> where it still correct..
> 
> But it stills too "subjective" for me!   :o\
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> What is the best way to do that?
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> Regards,
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> Sara Mouro
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