So you need to read a file into R in that format?
Try changing the values in ?read.table. Using the example, I was able
to get the data using:
read.table("clipboard", sep = "=", header = F, colClasses =
c("character", "numeric"))
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:19 AM, heimat los <heimatlo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Matt Shotwell <m...@biostatmatt.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 15:36 +0200, heimat los wrote:
>> > Hello all,
>> > I am new to R and my question should be trivial. I need to create a word
>> > cloud from a txt file containing the words and their occurrence number.
>> For
>> > that purposes I am using the snippets package [1].
>> > As it can be seen at the bottom of the link, first I have to create a
>> vector
>> > (is that right that words is a vector?) like bellow.
>> >
>> > > words <- c(apple=10, pie=14, orange=5, fruit=4)
>> >
>> > My problem is to do the same thing but create the vector from a file
>> which
>> > would contain words and their occurence number. I would be very happy if
>> you
>> > could give me some hints.
>>
>> How is the file formatted? Can you provide a small example?
>>
>>
> The file format is
>
> "video tape"=8
> "object recognition"=45
> "object detection"=23
> "vhs tape"=2
>
> But I can change it if needed with bash scripting.
>
> Regards
>
>
>
>> > Moreover, to understand the format of the file to be inserted I write the
>> > vector words to a file.
>> >
>> > > write(words, file="words.txt")
>> >
>> > However, the file words.txt contains only the values but not the
>> > names(apple, pie etc.).
>> >
>> > $ cat words.txt
>> > 10 14 5 4
>> >
>> > It seems that I have to understand more about the data types in R.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> > PH
>> >
>> > http://www.rforge.net/doc/packages/snippets/cloud.html
>> >
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