Hi, I have the following data file to be parsed and captured as a data frame:
__DATA__ #GDS_ID GENE_NAME GENE_DESCRIPTION GENE_FUNCTION 1007_s_at | DDR1 | discoidin domain receptor tyrosine kinase 1 | protein-coding 1053_at | RFC2 | replication factor C (activator 1) 2, 40kDa | protein-coding 117_at | HSPA6 | heat shock 70kDa protein 6 (HSP70B') | protein-coding __END__ In particular it is separated by " | " , namely - space, bar, space. However I tried this without avail: geneinfo <- read.table("mydata.txt", sep=" | ", comment.char="\#") print(geneinfo) I also tried with sep= "|", it gave a wrong parsing. Please advice. - Gundala Viswanath Jakarta - Indonesia ______________________________________________ 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.