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HTH .... Peter Alspach -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of barny Sent: Friday, 10 February 2012 9:52 a.m. To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Getting codebook data into R I've been trying to get some data from the National Survey for Family Growth into R - however, the data is in a .dat file and the data I need doesn't have any spaces or commas separating fields - rather you have to look into the codebook and what number of digits along the line the data you need is. The data I want are the following, where 1,12,int means that the data I'm interested starts in column 1 and finishes in column 12 and is an integer. ('caseid', 1, 12, int), ('nbrnaliv', 22, 22, int), ('babysex', 56, 56, int), ('birthwgt_lb', 57, 58, int), ('birthwgt_oz', 59, 60, int), ('prglength', 275, 276, int), ('outcome', 277, 277, int), ('birthord', 278, 279, int), ('agepreg', 284, 287, int), ('finalwgt', 423, 440, float) How can I do this using R? I've written a python programme which basically does it but it'd be nicer if I could skip the Python bit and just do it using R. Cheers for any help. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Getting-codebook-data-into-R-tp4374331p4374331.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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. The contents of this e-mail are confidential and may be subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disseminate, distribute or reproduce all or any part of this e-mail or attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete all material pertaining to this e-mail. Any opinion or views expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual sender and may not represent those of The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited. ______________________________________________ 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.
