[R] Reading Strings in R

[Greg Snow]

Use scan whith what='' or read.table with colClasses='character'.

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Statistical Data Center
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Lorenzo Isella
> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 5:05 AM
> To: r-help
> Subject: [R] Reading Strings in R
> 
> Dear All,
> I know this must be a one-liner, but I am experiencing problems.
> I need to read lists of long integers stored on a text files, i.e.
> which
> reads like
> 
> "7359700484475972"
> "7359700484475972"
> "0"
> "7359700484475972"
> "0"
> "0"
> "0"
> "97189954101318722"
> "0"
> "0"
> "7811896690636354"
> "7359700490636354"
> "0"
> "0"
> "0"
> "7811896684475972"
> "7811896684475972"
> "7811896690636354"
> "8447597298304052"
> "7359700484475972"
> "0"
> "7359700498304052"
> "7359700498304052"
> "7359700498304052"
> "0"
> "7359700498304052"
> "7359700484475972"
> "7359700484475972"
> 
> Now, for me every integer is just a symbol, i.e. the ID of some object
> and I simply need to find out how many times and where it occurs in
> this
> file.
> Bottom line: I would like to read this file directly as a string to
> ensure I will not have any trouble of integer overflow or rounding
> error.
> I tried readLines, but I cannot get rid of \n.
> Any help is appreciated.
> Cheers
> 
> Lorenzo
> 
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