> [stuff about SAS CARDS statement, I think]
> >   INPUT survey $ 1-2 seasonal $ 3 state $ 4-5 area $ 6-10 supersector 
$
> > 11-12 @13 industry $8. datatype $ 21-22  year period $ value footnote 
$ ;
> ...
>  This just seems like horrendously bad practice, which is one reason
> it's kludgy in R. If it was good practice, someone would surely have
> written a way to do it neatly.
> 
>  Keep your data in data files, and your functions in .R function
> files. You'll thank me later.

Actually, it's really helpful to be able to do this when you're writing 
unit tests.  I've spent a fair bit of time writing R code to create 
dataframes of artificial data to this end.  There's more than one way to 
do it, sure, they're all kludgey.

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