Have you considered 'scan' or 'read.table'?  This is what is mostly used in
these situations.  Read the chapter in the Intro to R on reading in data.

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Seth <sjmyers@syr.edu> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> I am reading a large space-delimited text file into R (41 columns and many
> rows) and need to do run each row's values through another R object and
> then
> write to another text file.  So, far using readLines and writeLines seems
> to
> be the best bet.  I've gotten the data exchange working except each row is
> read in as one 'chunk', meaning the row has all values between two quotes
> ("41 numbers").  I need to split these based upon the spaces between them.
> What is the simplest means of doing this?
>
> Code so far.
>
> datin<-file("C:\\rforest\\data\\aoidry_predictors_85.txt", open="rt")
> datout<-file("C:\\rforest\\prob85.txt",open="wt")
> x<-readLines(datin,n=1)
> writeLines(x,con=datout)
>
> Thanks,
> Seth
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