[R] How to read this data properly?

[Greg Snow]

Using the readlines function on your dat string gives the error
because it is looking for a file named "2 3 ..." which it is not
finding.  more likely what you want is to create a text connection
(see ?textConnection) to your string, then use scan or read.table on
that connection.

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Bogaso Christofer
<bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all, I have been given a data something like below:
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> Dat = "2 3 28.3 3.05 8 3 3 22.5 1.55 0 1 1 26.0 2.30 9 3 3 24.8 2.10 0
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> 3 3 26.0 2.60 4 2 3 23.8 2.10 0 3 2 24.7 1.90 0 2 1 23.7 1.95 0
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> 3 3 25.6 2.15 0 3 3 24.3 2.15 0 2 3 25.8 2.65 0 2 3 28.2 3.05 11
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> 4 2 21.0 1.85 0 2 1 26.0 2.30 14 1 1 27.1 2.95 8 2 3 25.2 2.00 1
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> 2 3 29.0 3.00 1 4 3 24.7 2.20 0 2 3 27.4 2.70 5 2 2 23.2 1.95 4"
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> I want to create a matrix out of those data for my further calculations. I
> have tried with readLines() but got error:
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>> readLines(Dat)
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> Error in file(con, "r") : cannot open the connection
>
> In addition: Warning message:
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> In file(con, "r") :
>
>  cannot open file '2 3 28.3 3.05 8 3 3 22.5 1.55 0 1 1 26.0 2.30 9 3 3 24.8
> 2.10 0
>
> 3 3 26.0 2.60 4 2 3 23.8 2.10 0 3 2 24.7 1.90 0 2 1 23.7 1.95 0
>
> 3 3 25.6 2.15 0 3 3 24.3 2.15 0 2 3 25.8 2.65 0 2 3 28.2 3.05 11
>
> 4 2 21.0 1.85 0 2 1 26.0 2.30 14 1 1 27.1 2.95 8 2 3 25.2 2.00 1
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> 2 3 29.0 3.00 1 4 3 24.7 2.20 0 2 3 27.4 2.70 5 2 2 23.2 1.95 4': No such
> file or directory
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> Can somebody help to put that data in some workable format?
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> Thanks and regards,
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