[R] converting multiple lines of text to a data frame

[Phil Spector]

Andrew-
    Maybe something like this:

> dd = read.table(filename)
> unstack(dd,V2~V1)
   A. B.   C.
1  1  2 10.0
2 34 20  6.7
3  2 78 35.0

 					- Phil Spector
 					 Statistical Computing Facility
 					 Department of Statistics
 					 UC Berkeley
 					 spector at stat.berkeley.edu




On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Andrew Yee wrote:

> I'm trying to find a way for converting multiple lines of text into a
> table.  I'm not sure if there's a way where you can use read.delim()
> to read in multiple lines of text and create the following data frame
> with something akin to rehape()?.  Apologies if there is an obvious
> way to do this.
>
> A: 1
> B: 2
> C: 10
> A: 34
> B: 20
> C: 6.7
> A: 2
> B: 78
> C: 35
>
> Convert the above lines into the following data frame
>
> A             B             C
> 1              2              10
> 34            20            6.7
> 2              78            35
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
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