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Rich



On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:51 PM, barny <garyb.davies@btinternet.com> wrote:

> I've been trying to get some data from the National Survey for Family
> Growth
> into R - however, the data is in a .dat file and the data I need doesn't
> have any spaces or commas separating fields - rather you have to look into
> the codebook and what number of digits along the line the data you need is.
> The data I want are the following, where 1,12,int means that the data I'm
> interested starts in column 1 and finishes in column 12 and is an integer.
>
>            ('caseid', 1, 12, int),
>             ('nbrnaliv', 22, 22, int),
>            ('babysex', 56, 56, int),
>            ('birthwgt_lb', 57, 58, int),
>            ('birthwgt_oz', 59, 60, int),
>            ('prglength', 275, 276, int),
>            ('outcome', 277, 277, int),
>            ('birthord', 278, 279, int),
>            ('agepreg', 284, 287, int),
>            ('finalwgt', 423, 440, float)
>
> How can I do this using R? I've written a python programme which basically
> does it but it'd be nicer if I could skip the Python bit and just do it
> using R. Cheers for any help.
>
>
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