I need to import several ascii files in fixed format with two different record types. The data comes from European Labor Force Surveys, wich is a household survey. The first record type is for people over 16 years, and the second much sorter is for people aged 15 or less (this record has a filler with several blanks to get the same record length).
The files tipically have 160000 records, with 176 characters per record, the data is numeric, corresponding to 102 variables, mostly integers (seven variables have two decimals). My opertating system is Windows XP.
My questions:
1. Wich do you think is the best way to import the files into R?
2. Could you give me any references or examples?
Thanking you in advance,
Hug



      
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