On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Johan Jackson wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any way to add multiple separators in the sep= argument in > read.table? I would like to be able to create different columns if I see a > white space OR a "/".
No. read.table() uses scan(), and that requires 'sep' to be a single character (if specified). You can read your dataset by readLines, change "/" to, say, "\t" by gsub() and then use read.table() on a textConnection() from the resulting character vector. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ 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.
