[R] re ading tokens

[jim holtman]

Is this what you want:

> x <- readLines(textConnection("word1 word2 word3
+ word2 word4"))
> closeAllConnections()
> yourList <- strsplit(x, '[[:space:]]+')
>
>
> yourList
[[1]]
[1] "word1" "word2" "word3"

[[2]]
[1] "word2" "word4"

>


On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:00 PM, j daniel <jdlecy at maxwell.syr.edu> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I am not familiar with processing text in R.  Can someone tell me how to
> read each line of words as separate elements in a list?
>
> FE, I would like to turn:
>
> word1 word2 word3
> word2 word4
>
> into a list of length two with three character elements in the first list
> and two elements in the second.  I know that this should be easy, but I am a
> little confused by the text functions.
>
> Thanks in advance!
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Jim Holtman
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