[R] Characters To Matrix

[jim holtman]

Why aren't you using 'read.table'?

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Bob Roberts <quagmire54321 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>   I have a data set that I read in using readLines, but R classes it as a character string. The data set has multiple columns and rows, but I only want the first 2 columns in the form of a matrix. Thanks for the help.
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Jim Holtman
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What is the problem that you are trying to solve?