[R] Split fixed width data in R

John McKown john.archie.mckown at gmail.com
Thu Oct 23 01:23:32 CEST 2014


On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Zilefac Elvis <zilefacelvis at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> I have fixed width data that I would like to split into columns. Here is a
> sanpshot of the data (actual data is a list object):
> ​<snip>
>

> Thanks,
> AT.
>
>
​I see you already have an answer that you like. I will add that read.fwf
might also be a possibility. It's difficult for me to tell if that last
column is always 6 characters in length.

file <- textConnection(list_object)
read.fwf(file=file,c(4,2,2,4,6))


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