Try this. If the format varies you may need to modify it from below. Replace textConnection(rawLines) with the name of your file. This extracts lines with a = and rereads them using read.table with = as the separator. It also gets lines with a number that has spaces on both sides, deletes everything to the ] and rereads them using read.table.
rawLines <- " Network attributes: vertices = 3 directed = TRUE hyper = FALSE loops = FALSE multiple = FALSE total edges= 3 Vertex attribute names: group vertex.names edgelist matrix: [,1] [,2] [1,] 3 1 [2,] 2 1 [3, ] 3 2 " Lines <- readLines(textConnection(rawLines)) Lines0 <- grep("=", Lines, value = TRUE) attributes <- read.table(textConnection(Lines0), sep = "=", as.is = TRUE) Lines1 <- sub(".*\\]", "", grep(" [0-9]+ ", Lines, value = TRUE)) edgelist <- read.table(textConnection(Lines1)) On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Ben Morley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello everone, > > I am a computer science researcher in the UK - and have a quick question > regarding importing data into R and more specifically latentnet. > > I am trying to import data such as a text file containing: (This is based on > the Sampson data set) > > ----------- > > Network attributes: > vertices = 3 > directed = TRUE > hyper = FALSE > loops = FALSE > multiple = FALSE > total edges= 3 > > Vertex attribute names: > group vertex.names > > edgelist matrix: > [,1] [,2] > [1,] 3 1 > [2,] 2 1 > [3, ] 3 2 > > ------------ > > What command should I use to import this data? I have attempted many such as > "read.delim" and "read.table" - but either an error message is returned, or > the strings in the data (such as edges=3) appear to become objects that are > analysed by the latentnet functions such as 'ergmm'. > > I look forward to your replys, > > Many thanks > > Ben > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > 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.