On Aug 17, 2011, at 05:57 , Jim Holtman wrote: > just read in the file using the tab as the separator. if this is a problem > because a tab might appear by itself, then use readLines to read in the file, > gsub to replace the blank/tab with a new separator, writeLines to write out > to a temporary and then read in from the temporary file.
You can skip the write and read back step by reading from a text connection. In R 2.14-to-be, there's a text= argument to read.table (and scan too), so you'll be able to do the whole thing on the fly: read.table(.... text=gsub(readLines(.....)....)) > > Sent from my iPad > > On Aug 16, 2011, at 11:02, Matt Curcio <matt.curcio...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I have a list that I got from a web page that I would like to crunch. >> Unfortunately, the list has some unusual separators in it. I believe >> the columns are separated by 1 space and 1 tab. I tried to insert >> this into the read.table( ..., sep=" \t", ...) but got an error that >> said something like 'only one byte separators can be used. >> I have thought about using a gsub to 'swap out' the "space + tab" and >> replace it with commas, etc but thought there might be another way. >> Any suggestions? >> M >> -- >> >> >> Matt Curcio >> M: 401-316-5358 >> E: matt.curcio...@gmail.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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com "Døden skal tape!" --- Nordahl Grieg ______________________________________________ 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.
