Try thist... your.strings <- scan("yourfilename.dat", what="")
Michael On 4 October 2010 22:04, Lorenzo Isella <lorenzo.ise...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear All, > I know this must be a one-liner, but I am experiencing problems. > I need to read lists of long integers stored on a text files, i.e. which > reads like > > "7359700484475972" > "7359700484475972" > "0" > "7359700484475972" > "0" > "0" > "0" > "97189954101318722" > "0" > "0" > "7811896690636354" > "7359700490636354" > "0" > "0" > "0" > "7811896684475972" > "7811896684475972" > "7811896690636354" > "8447597298304052" > "7359700484475972" > "0" > "7359700498304052" > "7359700498304052" > "7359700498304052" > "0" > "7359700498304052" > "7359700484475972" > "7359700484475972" > > Now, for me every integer is just a symbol, i.e. the ID of some object and I > simply need to find out how many times and where it occurs in this file. > Bottom line: I would like to read this file directly as a string to ensure I > will not have any trouble of integer overflow or rounding error. > I tried readLines, but I cannot get rid of \n. > Any help is appreciated. > Cheers > > Lorenzo > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.