[R] read.fwf and header

[Gabor Grothendieck]

I also have to deal with fixed format files from time to time.
Generally I have no control over the format in those cases.

On 10/31/06, davidr at rhotrading.com <davidr at rhotrading.com> wrote:
> "Archaic" it may be, but I still have to deal with fixed format data
> files on a daily basis.
>
> David L. Reiner
> Rho Trading Securities, LLC
> Chicago  IL  60605
> 312-362-4963
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Martin Maechler
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 1:52 AM
> To: gregor.gorjanc at bfro.uni-lj.si
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] read.fwf and header
>
> <snip>
>
> In my (and probably R-core's) view, read.fwf() should only have
> to be used for ``legacy data files'' (those times when people used *no*
> separators in order to save disk space), since nowadays, such
> data files should "automatically" have correct separators.
>
> --> Fix the "file producing process" rather than make read.fwf()
> unnecessarily more complicated.
>
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
>
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