> Hi:
> I have a data file in the following format. The first three digits
stand for the ID of a respondent such as 402, 403. Different respondents
may have the same ID. Followed the ID are 298 single digit number
ranging from 1 to 5. My question is how to read this data file into R. I
tried "scan" and "read" but they do not work because the numbers in the
file are not separated. Any suggestions?
> Thank you!
>
The answers provided to date (read.fwf()) look just fine. I thought
I'd mention that you could always pre-process the data file in any text
editor to insert commmas or tabs between every number (other than that
leading 3-digit number) and then use scan() or read.csv()
Carl
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