[R] Read in a all-character file and specify field separator and records separator

[Joshua Wiley]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Yong Wang <wangyong1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear list
>
> I used to use python or awk do preliminary process and then feed into
> R. In some circumstances, the data transmission becomes quite a pain.
> I am wondering if there is a convenient way to read in R text file
> (not data, text file in common sense) and specify field separator and
> records separator, so the whole work can be reduced to one-stop
> shopping.
> or simply, is there one simple way to read in the text file with each
> row in a single column. scan(....sep="\n") does not work as expected.

Do either of these do what you want?

readLines(con = file("example.txt", open = "r"))
read.table(file = "example.txt", sep = "\n")

Both throw a warning in a little text file I made, but both read each
line into one column.

Josh

>
> Thanks
>
> yong
>
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