[R] html excel file

[Peter Dalgaard]

roger bos <roger.bos at gmail.com> writes:

> Read ?scan very carefully and play with the settings.  What makes your file
> difficult is that it is multi line, meaning that the headings have carriage
> returns between them instead of being one line separated with spaces or tabs
> or commas.  Can you change the way the file is outputted?  If not, you will
> have to play with scan to get the file in.  Anything is possible, but it
> looks like it will be tricky.

I'd try reading the whole thing as a character vector 

x <- scan(...., what="")

then 

M <- matrix(x[-(1:3)], byrow=TRUE)

cn <- M[1,-1]
rn <- M[-1,1]
n <- M[-1,-1]
mode(n) <- "numeric"
dimnames(n) <- list(rn,cn)
 
and then (possibly) data.frame(n)

[Notice that this is only partially tested, so no guarantees]

> HTH,
> Roger
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/19/06, Stefan Semmeling <trittihn at web.de> wrote:
> >
> > hallo,
> >
> > i have a problem reading in the above mentioned kind of a file.
> > does anybody know an easy way how to read it in?
> > i can save it as a text file that looks like:
> >
> > Datum des Fixings
> > Restlaufzeit
> >
> >
> > 1 Jahr
> > 2 Jahre
> > 3 Jahre
> > 4 Jahre
> > 5 Jahre
> > 6 Jahre
> > 7 Jahre
> > 8 Jahre
> > 9 Jahre
> > 10 Jahre
> > 12 Jahre
> > 15 Jahre
> > 13.01.06
> > 2.819
> > 2.983
> > 3.073
> > 3.137
> > 3.194
> > 3.247
> > 3.302
> > 3.355
> > 3.409
> > 3.459
> > 3.548
> > 3.649
> > 12.01.06
> > 2.847
> > 3.013
> > 3.102
> > 3.164
> > 3.217
> > 3.268
> > 3.322
> > 3.373
> > 3.426
> > 3.475
> > 3.564
> > 3.665
> > ...
> >
> > after skipping the first four lines i want to read it in while the first
> > 12
> > lines are the heades
> > the next is the date followed by the singel values...(these lines are
> > always
> > repeated)
> >
> > it is supposed to look like
> >
> >          1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10    12    15
> > datum1    a    b    c    d    e    f    g    h    i    j         k      l
> > datum2    a    b    c    d    e    f    g    h    i    j     k      l
> > ...
> >
> > i tried to read it in as a normal excel file but it didn´t work out the
> > way
> > it was supposed to
> >
> > thank you for helping!!!
> >
> > stefan
> >
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