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There's probably another way using readLines or so to do it in one try, but say you used : frame <- read.delim("some_file.ext") then library(chron) newframe$name <- paste(frame[,3],frame[,4]) newframe$dates <- chron(frame[,1],frame[,2],format=c(dates = "y/m/d", times = "h:m:s")) Cheers Joris On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Sebastian Kruk <residuo.so...@gmail.com> wrote: > I a have a text file where every line is like that: > > "2007-12-03 13:50:17 Juan Perez" > ("yy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss First Name Second Name") > > I would like to make a data frame with two column one for date and the > other one for name. > > When I use read.delim it was transformed in a data frame with 4 colums. > > Bye, > > Sebastián. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Joris Meys Statistical consultant Ghent University Faculty of Bioscience Engineering Department of Applied mathematics, biometrics and process control tel : +32 9 264 59 87 joris.m...@ugent.be ------------------------------- Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.