[R] Separator of data

[David Winsemius]

On Jun 28, 2011, at 3:47 PM, Trying To learn again wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a matrix like this:
>
> 188556644
> 225588666
> 558888555
>
> I try to read the table using read table but if I put sep="" I have  
> seen it
> expects a white space, is there a "sep" option to  read this matrix so
> each single number is a position of the matrix

No. You want read.fwf ... which I thought was in the foreign package  
but it appears to be in base.

 > nchar(188556644)
[1] 9
 > Lines <- textConnection("188556644
+ 225588666
+ 558888555")
 > read.fwf(Lines, rep(1,9))
   V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9
1  1  8  8  5  5  6  6  4  4
2  2  2  5  5  8  8  6  6  6
3  5  5  8  8  8  8  5  5  5

>
> You see this matrix would be an 3x9 matrix
>
> I tried other option but also didn´t worked.
>
> If sep = "" (the default for read.table) the separator is ‘white  
> space’,
> that is one or more spaces, tabs, newlines or carriage returns.
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT