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

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

l <- readLines(textConnection("1: 3,4,5,6
2:1,2,3
43: 5,7,8,9,5"))

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Henrique Dallazuanna <wwwhsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>        [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
>> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Henrique Dallazuanna
> Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil
> 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O
>



-- 
Henrique Dallazuanna
Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil
25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O