[R] Unusual separators

[Jim Holtman]

just read in the file using the tab as the separator.  if this is a problem because a tab might appear by itself, then use readLines to read in the file, gsub to replace the blank/tab with a new separator, writeLines to write out to a temporary and then read in from the temporary file.

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On Aug 16, 2011, at 11:02, Matt Curcio <matt.curcio.ri at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I have a list that I got from a web page that I would like to crunch.
> Unfortunately, the list has some unusual separators in it.  I believe
> the columns are separated by 1 space and 1 tab.  I tried to insert
> this into the read.table( ..., sep=" \t", ...) but got an error that
> said something like 'only one byte separators can be used.
> I have thought about using a gsub to 'swap out' the "space + tab" and
> replace it with commas, etc but thought there might be another way.
> Any suggestions?
> M
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