On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Yong Wang <wangyo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear list > > I used to use python or awk do preliminary process and then feed into > R. In some circumstances, the data transmission becomes quite a pain. > I am wondering if there is a convenient way to read in R text file > (not data, text file in common sense) and specify field separator and > records separator, so the whole work can be reduced to one-stop > shopping. > or simply, is there one simple way to read in the text file with each > row in a single column. scan(....sep="\n") does not work as expected.
Do either of these do what you want? readLines(con = file("example.txt", open = "r")) read.table(file = "example.txt", sep = "\n") Both throw a warning in a little text file I made, but both read each line into one column. Josh > > Thanks > > yong > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology University of California, Los Angeles http://www.joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ 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.