On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Full_Name: Emmanuel Paradis
> Version: 2.1.1
> OS: Linux
> Submission from: (NULL) (193.49.41.105)
>
>
> read.fwf(..., header = TRUE) does not work properly since:
>
> 1/ the original header is printed on the console and not in FILE;
> 2/ the different 'parts' of the header should be separated with tabs
> to work with the call to read.table.
>
> Here is a suggested fix for src/library/utils/R/read.fwf.R:
>
> 38c38,40
> < cat(FILE, headerline, "\n")
> ---
>> headerline <- unlist(strsplit(headerline, " {1,}"))
>> headerline <- paste(headerline, collapse = "\t")
>> cat(file = FILE, headerline, "\n")
Thanks, but I don't think that is right. It assumes the header line is
space-delimited (or at least that spaces get converted to tabs). We have
not specified the format of the header line, and it cannot usefully be
fixed format. So I think we need to specify it is delimited by 'sep'
(not tab).
--
Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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