[R] Odp: Re ad in a file - produce independent vectors

[Petr PIKAL]

Hi

r-help-bounces at r-project.org napsal dne 04.07.2008 16:38:08:

> 
> Is there a way of reading in a file in a way that each line becomes a 
vector:
> for example:
> 
> meals.txt
> 
> breakfast    bacon    eggs    sausage
> lunch    sandwich    apple    marsbar    crisps
> dinner    chicken    rice    custard    pie
> 
> I want to read in this file and end up with 3 different vectors, one 
called
> breakfast which contains "bacon", "eggs", sausage" One called lunch with
> "sandwich", "apple"... etc

You can read it through

read.table("meals.txt", sep="", header=F, fill=T, as.is=T)

see ?read.table for info about parameters.

You will get data frame and then you can manipulate it easily. It depends 
what do you want to do next with your food.

Regards
Petr

> 
> So is there a way to do this with a file like this?
> 
> Or would I need to transpose the file using something like Perl? And 
since
> the vectors are not all of equal length, would I have to also increase 
the
> size of the shorter lines by adding NAs? I'm working with a file much 
bigger
> than this and this could be a bit of a bother...
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Jim
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