[R] Data with no separator

Liaw, Andy andy_liaw at merck.com
Fri Jan 13 14:40:56 CET 2006


Perhaps read.fwf() can be of use...

Andy

From: 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
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