[R] Qualitative Data??(String command)

[Davia Cox]

I am using the read.table function to load an Excel data set into R.
It has a few variables with very long qualitative (free response
typically in sentences) response that I would like to keep, but would
like to limit the "length" of the response that R shows. Is there some
sort of string or column width command I can include in the read.table
function to limit the length of words used in the variables that have
long responses?? I do know which variable names are the ones with the
qualitative responses. Will the Rcmdr program do this for me? I know
STATA has this function but I don't have it on my computer to use.

Davia


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Davia S. Cox
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