[R] Importing data with different delimters

[Greg Snow]

It looks like your original data may be tab seperated, if that is the case then just use read.delim or use sep='\t' in read.table or scan.

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Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of David Arnold
> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 5:15 PM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Importing data with different delimters
>
> All,
>
> I have a data file with 56 entries that looks like this:
>
> City State      JanTemp Lat     Long
> Mobile, AL      44      31.2    88.5
> Montgomery, AL  38      32.9    86.8
> Phoenix, AZ     35      33.6    112.5
> Little Rock, AR 31      35.4    92.8
> Los Angeles, CA 47      34.3    118.7
> San Francisco, CA       42      38.4    123.0
>
> I would like to "read" this data into a dataframe. Is it
> possible to do without editing the datafile?
>
> D.
>
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