It looks like your original data may be tab seperated, if that is the case then just use read.delim or use sep='\t' in read.table or scan.
-- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare [EMAIL PROTECTED] (801) 408-8111 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Arnold > Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 5:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [R] Importing data with different delimters > > All, > > I have a data file with 56 entries that looks like this: > > City State JanTemp Lat Long > Mobile, AL 44 31.2 88.5 > Montgomery, AL 38 32.9 86.8 > Phoenix, AZ 35 33.6 112.5 > Little Rock, AR 31 35.4 92.8 > Los Angeles, CA 47 34.3 118.7 > San Francisco, CA 42 38.4 123.0 > > I would like to "read" this data into a dataframe. Is it > possible to do without editing the datafile? > > D. > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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. > ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.

