[R] Loading List data into R with scan()

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

Try this:

 sapply(lapply(strsplit(l, ":"), strsplit, ","),
function(x)structure(lapply(x[2], as.numeric), .Names = x[1]))

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Michael Pearmain
<michael.pearmain at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've been given a data file of the form:
> 1: 3,4,5,6
> 2:1,2,3
> 43: 5,7,8,9,5
>
> and i want to read this data in as a list to create the form:
> (guessing final look)
> my.list
> [[1]]
> [1] 3 4 5 6
>
> [[2]]
> [1] 1 2 3
>
> [[43]]
> [1] 5 7 8 9 5
>
> I can get to a stage using scan:
> scan("my.data", what = character(0), quiet = TRUE)
> to load
> [1] "1: 3,4,5,6"
> [2] "2:1,2,3"
> [3] "43: 5,7,8,9,5"
>
> but im not sure on how next to proceed to arrange this into a list form, can
> anyone offer some advise?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Mike
>
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