Hi, I have a text file i would like to read into a list structure in R.
the files is something like that (which might be describe as a list of data frames): [[1]] NAME MEM.SHIP FBgn0037415 FBgn0037415 0.8035441 FBgn0010812 FBgn0010812 0.6579683 FBgn0265351 FBgn0265351 0.6443309 [[3]] NAME MEM.SHIP FBgn0037227 FBgn0037227 0.9997242 FBgn0040682 FBgn0040682 0.9997242 [[9]] NAME MEM.SHIP FBgn0026620 FBgn0026620 0.5241095 FBgn0263619 FBgn0263619 0.5420427 FBgn0263353 FBgn0263353 0.9812295 FBgn0037424 FBgn0037424 0.9793901 FBgn0037428 FBgn0037428 0.9779420 FBgn0037430 FBgn0037430 0.9540148 FBgn0004777 FBgn0004777 0.8962534 FBgn0004778 FBgn0004778 0.9810570 ... I would like it to have a list structure like that at the end: > str(INPUT) List of 3 $ : Factor w/ 223 levels "GENE1",..: 194 129 222 213 42 130 45 131 132 133 ... $ : Factor w/ 210 levels "GENE4",..: 185 109 110 146 171 175 111 17 112 209 ... $ : Factor w/ 343 levels "GENE7",..: 27 296 326 228 229 263 19 39 230 26 I am reading the file in with scan, but I just get a character vector of all the elements together. I was wondering if there is a way to split the text file into a list by the pattern [[.*]] and than extract only the first column from each data frame. thanks in advance Assa [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.