[R] Reading fixed column format

[Anupam Tyagi]

Jason Barnhart <jasoncbarnhart <at> msn.com> writes:

> 
> These posts may be helpful.
> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/05/06/5776.html
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2002-May/021145.html
> 
> Using scan directly may also work for you rather than read.fwf.
> 
> Also, there are posts regarding using other tools such a 'perl' or 'cut' to 
> prepocess the data
> before reading with R.  Searching the archives with those keywords should 
> help.

I new user should not have to learn "perl","cut", "awk", etc simply to be able
to use R. Does not make sense to me.