[R] Data separated by spaces, getting data into R using field lengths

[jim holtman]

Can you post how you would like it.

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Lauri Nikkinen<lauri.nikkinen at iki.fi> wrote:
> Thanks, I tried it but I got
>
>> varlength <- c(2, 2, 18, 5, 18)
>> read.fwf("c:temppi.txt", widths=varlength)
>  V1 V2                 V3    V4   V5
> 1 DF 12  This is an exampl e 1 T  his
> 2 DF 12  This is an 1232 T his i    s
> 3 DF 14  This is 12334 Thi s is   an
> 4 DF 15  This 23 This is a n exa mple
>
> Which is not the way I want it.
>
> structure(list(V1 = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L), .Label = "DF", class
> = "factor"),
>    V2 = c(12L, 12L, 14L, 15L), V3 = structure(c(4L, 3L, 2L,
>    1L), .Label = c(" This 23 This is a", " This is 12334 Thi",
>    " This is an 1232 T", " This is an exampl"), class = "factor"),
>    V4 = structure(c(1L, 2L, 4L, 3L), .Label = c("e 1 T", "his i",
>    "n exa", "s is "), class = "factor"), V5 = structure(c(2L,
>    4L, 1L, 3L), .Label = c("an ", "his", "mple", "s"), class =
> "factor")), .Names = c("V1",
> "V2", "V3", "V4", "V5"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA,
> -4L))
>
> Any ideas?
> -L
>
> 2009/9/8 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>:
>> On 9/8/2009 7:53 AM, Lauri Nikkinen wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a text file similar to this (separated by spaces):
>>>
>>> x <- "DF12 This is an example 1 This
>>> DF12 This is an 1232 This is
>>> DF14 This is 12334 This is an
>>> DF15 This 23 This is an example
>>> "
>>>
>>> and I know the field lengths of each variable (there is 5 variables in
>>> this data set), which are:
>>>
>>> varlength <- c(2, 2, 18, 5, 18)
>>>
>>> How can I import this kind of data into R, using the varlength
>>> variable as an field separator indicator?
>>
>> See ?read.fwf.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>
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