Hi Brian,

Take a look at ?scan

> x <- scan(file.choose(), what = 'list')
Read 3 items
> x
[1] "010101001110101" "101010010111110" "010010100100000"
> as.matrix(x)
     [,1]
[1,] "010101001110101"
[2,] "101010010111110"
[3,] "010010100100000"

HTH,
Jorge


On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Brian Tsai <> wrote:

> hi all,
>
> i have a file of the following format that i want to read into a matrix:
>
> 010101001110101
> 101010010111110
> 010010100100000
> ...
>
> it has no headers or row names.
>
> I tried to use read.table(), but it doesn't allow me to specify nothing as
> the column separator (specifying sep='' means whitespace for that
> function).  read.fwf doesn't seem appropriate either.
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