[R] re ading tokens

[David Winsemius]

On Nov 2, 2009, at 8:00 PM, j daniel 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.

 > txt <- textConnection("word1 word2 word3
+ word2 word4")
 > strsplit(readLines(txt), " ")
[[1]]
[1] "word1" "word2" "word3"

[[2]]
[1] "word2" "word4"
>
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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT