On 26/06/14 21:21, carol white wrote:
Hi,
with read.fwf, it works.
But I still don't understand why it doesn't work with read.table
since the sep by default is "", which is the case and in one trial, I
used read.table("myfile",colClasses = "character",
stringsAsFactors=FALSE, and stil didn't work but it should have.
What do you mean "didn't work"? Do you mean you are still getting a
factor? Or just that you are not getting a 10-column data frame?
In respect of the latter: RTFM. It says, about "sep":
If sep = "" (the default for read.table) the separator is ‘white space’,
that is one or more spaces, tabs, newlines or carriage returns.
You *have to* use read.fwf() if you want to go this route.
I also gave you a (somewhat more convoluted but equally valid) procedure
to achieve what you want.
What I would *really* like to know is: How did you manage to get
colClasses="character" *not* to work? You must have done *something*
strange.
A ***reproducible*** example would be nice.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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