[R] Importing ASCII flat
Uwe Ligges
ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Thu May 17 15:43:46 CEST 2012
On 17.05.2012 14:17, Richard Iles wrote:
> I am trying to import Indian National Sample Survey Data. It is ASCII flat
> and an example is below
>
> 001460306025001117101011117111201*01*000000211 270104070204093
> 002460306025001117101011117111201*02*0000008011116104910519572 022 2600
> 1150 30 55 170 4005 003460306025001117101011117111201*03*
> 0000111039204112 222
Do you have a file format specification? This is probably some fixed
width formatted file, hence read.fwf may help to import the data. See
?read.fwf and the R Data Import/Export manual.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
> Previous post don't seem to provide much help. I have an document outlining
> the layout of the data, but don't know how to start. An example of the
> layout is that the values in bold indicate separate levels.Example of
> layout is below:
>
> Sl.No. Item Blk Item Col Len Byte Position Remarks 1 Common Items
> 33 1 - 33 Auto-duplicated 2 Level 2 34 - 35 "02" Generated 3 Filler
> 5 36 - 40 "00000" Generated 4 HHS Size 3 1 2 41 - 42 5 NIC Code(5-digit)
> 3 2 5 43 - 47 6 NCO Code(3-digit) 3 3 3 48 - 50 7 HHS type 3 4 1 51 -
> 51 8 Religion 3 5 1 52 - 52
> As is obvious, I am relatively new to R. Any constructive advice would be
> welcome.
>
> Richard Iles
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