[R] read.fwf and header

[Gregor Gorjanc]

Daniel Nordlund wrote:
> Gregor,
> 
> According to the help for read.fwf, sep needs to be set to a value that occurs only in the header record.  I changed the spaces to commas in the header record of your example and used the following syntax and was able to read the file just fine.
> 
> new.data<-read.fwf(file="test.txt", widths=c(3, 4, 10, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 11, 19),
>   header=TRUE, sep=',')
> 
> Hope this is helpful,
> 
> Dan

Thanks Dan! But I have to modfy file first. Not that much of work but still.

Regards, Gregor