[R] Reading in tab (and space) delimited data within a script XXXX

[Jeff Newmiller]

Cannot see what you are "doing" wrong, since you don't show that. It looks like you have eliminated all delimiters from your input data. Perhaps your editor settings are doing something to your data (though usually tabs if altered become spaces).
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Dan Abner <dan.abner99 at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi Michael,
>
>Thanks for your responses.
>
>When I do this, I am not successful. What am I doing wrong?
>
>> data3<-
>+ "OBSNOAGESEXALKPHOSLABCAMMOLPHOSMMOLAGEGROUP
>+ 2176M8453.20.93
>+ 2276M52.180.843
>+ 2368M8252.150.521
>+ 2469M8452.31.361
>+ 2576F100325.31.073
>+ 2670F903200.972
>+ 2771F109322.30.942
>+ 2870-9965324.31.422
>+ 2974F613250.872
>+ 3074F62323.30.942"
>>
>>
>> data3<-read.table(textConnection(data3),
>+    header=TRUE,sep=" ",
>+    row.names="OBSNO")
>Error in data[[rowvar]] : attempt to select less than one element
>> closeAllConnections()
>> data3
>[1]
>"OBSNOAGESEXALKPHOSLABCAMMOLPHOSMMOLAGEGROUP\n2176M8453.20.93\n2276M52.180.843\n2368M8252.150.521\n2469M8452.31.361\n2576F100325.31.073\n2670F903200.972\n2771F109322.30.942\n2870-9965324.31.422\n2974F613250.872\n3074F62323.30.942"
>>
>
>> data3<-read.table(textConnection(data3),
>+    header=TRUE,sep="\t",
>+    row.names="OBSNO")
>Error in data[[rowvar]] : attempt to select less than one element
>> closeAllConnections()
>> data3
>[1]
>"OBSNOAGESEXALKPHOSLABCAMMOLPHOSMMOLAGEGROUP\n2176M8453.20.93\n2276M52.180.843\n2368M8252.150.521\n2469M8452.31.361\n2576F100325.31.073\n2670F903200.972\n2771F109322.30.942\n2870-9965324.31.422\n2974F613250.872\n3074F62323.30.942"
>>
>
>
>
>
>On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:45 AM, R. Michael Weylandt <
>michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Simply change the sep  = "," argument of read table: " " for a space
>> and "\t" for a tab. E.g., read.table(text = data3, sep = " ", header
>=
>> TRUE)
>>
>> Take a look at ?read.table for more info about the sep argument (In
>> particular the special behavior of the default sep = "")
>>
>> Thanks for the well-posed question and working data.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Dan Abner <dan.abner99 at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>> > Hello everyone,
>> >
>> > I use Bob Muenchen's approach for reading in "in-stream" (to use
>SAS
>> > parlance) delimited data within a script. This works great:
>> >
>> >
>> > mystring <-
>> > "id,workshop,gender,q1,q2,q3,q4
>> >  1,1,f,1,1,5,1
>> >  2,2,f,2,1,4,1
>> >  3,1,f,2,2,4,3
>> >  4,2, ,3,1, ,3
>> >  5,1,m,4,5,2,4
>> >  6,2,m,5,4,5,5
>> >  7,1,m,5,3,4,4
>> >  8,2,m,4,5,5,5"
>> >
>> > mydata <- read.table( textConnection(mystring),
>> >   header=TRUE, sep=",",
>> >   row.names="id", na.strings=" ")
>> > closeAllConnections()
>> > mydata
>> >
>> > Can anyone suggest a similar approach for reading in tab-delimited
>or
>> > single space delimited data? Example data:
>> >
>> > data3<-
>> > "OBSNO AGE SEX ALKPHOS LAB CAMMOL PHOSMMOL AGEGROUP
>> > 21 76 M 84 5 3.2 0.9 3
>> > 22 76 M  5 2.18 0.84 3
>> > 23 68 M 82 5 2.15 0.52 1
>> > 24 69 M 84 5 2.3 1.36 1
>> > 25 76 F 100 3 25.3 1.07 3
>> > 26 70 F 90 3 20 0.97 2
>> > 27 71 F 109 3 22.3 0.94 2
>> > 28 70 -99 65 3 24.3 1.42 2
>> > 29 74 F 61 3 25 0.87 2
>> > 30 74 F 62 3 23.3 0.94 2"
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > Dan
>> >
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