[R] how to read BRFSS file

[jim holtman]

Exactly what have you tried and what did not work?  I downloaded the
'.asc' (text) version of the data and it appears to be fixed format
with 1294 characters per line; there are about 414K lines of data in
the file.  How much of the data do you need to extract?  You can read
in a portion of the file at a time and then extract just the fields
that you need for processing.  If it is not too many fields, this
should be a reasonable sized object.

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 7:58 PM, chloe yoon <yoon.chloe at gmail.com> wrote:
> hello,
> I am trying to do exploratory factor analysis with BRFSS dataset (
> http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/technical_infodata/surveydata/2008.htm) for a
> couple of days, but I was not able to do that and got frustrated. Can
> anybody help me with step by step guide? BRFSS dataset provides ASCII or SAS
> format.
> Thank you.
>
> chloe
>
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What is the problem that you are trying to solve?