Hi David,

If the delimier is "tab" try this.

my.df<-read.table("my_file.txt", head=T, sep="\t")

Cheers,
Miltinho
Brazil


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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-bounces@r-project.org
> > [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-project.org] On Behalf Of David Arnold
> > Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 5:15 PM
> > To: r-help@r-project.org
> > Subject: [R] Importing data with different delimters
> >
> > All,
> >
> > I have a data file with 56 entries that looks like this:
> >
> > City State      JanTemp Lat     Long
> > Mobile, AL      44      31.2    88.5
> > Montgomery, AL  38      32.9    86.8
> > Phoenix, AZ     35      33.6    112.5
> > Little Rock, AR 31      35.4    92.8
> > Los Angeles, CA 47      34.3    118.7
> > San Francisco, CA       42      38.4    123.0
> >
> > I would like to "read" this data into a dataframe. Is it
> > possible to do without editing the datafile?
> >
> > D.
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