[R] SAS "datalines" or "cards" statement equivalent in R?

[Marshall Feldman]

Regarding the various methods people have suggested, what if a typical 
tab-delimited data line looks like:

      SMS11000000000000001 1990 M01 688.0

and the SAS INPUT statement is

    INPUT survey $ 1-2 seasonal $ 3 state $ 4-5 area $ 6-10 supersector 
$ 11-12 @13 industry $8. datatype $ 21-22  year period $ value footnote $ ;

Note that most data lines have no footnote item, as in the sample.

Here (I think) we'd want all the character variables to be read as 
factors, possibly "year" as a date, and "value" as numeric.

    Marsh

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Gary Miller <> wrote:
>

> >>  Hi R Users,
> >>
> >> Is there a equivalent command in R where I can read in raw data? For
> >> example
> >> I'm looking for equivalent R code for following SAS code:
> >>
> >> DATA survey;
> >>   INPUT id sex $ age inc r1 r2 r3 ;
> >>   DATALINES;
> >>  1  F  35 17  7 2 2
> >> 17  M  50 14  5 5 3
> >> 33  F  45  6  7 2 7
> >> 49  M  24 14  7 5 7
> >> 65  F  52  9  4 7 7
> >> 81  M  44 11  7 7 7
> >> 2   F  34 17  6 5 3
> >> 18  M  40 14  7 5 2
> >> 34  F  47  6  6 5 6
> >> 50  M  35 17  5 7 5
> >> ;
> >>
> >> Any help would be highly appreciated,
> >> Gary