[R] Data with no separator

[Jeffrey T. Steedle]

I have data in which each row consists of a long string of number,
letters, symbols, and blank spaces.  I would like to simply scan in
strings of length 426, but R takes the spaces that occur in the data as
separators.  Is there any way around this?

Thanks,
Jeff Steedle 

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Jeffrey T. Steedle (jsteedle at stanford.edu)
Psychological Studies in Education
Stanford University School of Education