Just read them in as whole lines and then split them
giving a list of vectors. See ?readLines and ?strsplit
Lines <- readLines("meat.txt")
strsplit(Lines, " +")
This can also be done using strapply in gsubfn which
extracts words rather than splitting on delimiters:
library(gsubfn)
strapply(Lines, "\\w+")
More info on gsubfn is at http://gsubfn.googlecode.com
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 10:38 AM, jimineep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Is there a way of reading in a file in a way that each line becomes a vector:
> for example:
>
> meals.txt
>
> breakfast bacon eggs sausage
> lunch sandwich apple marsbar crisps
> dinner chicken rice custard pie
>
> I want to read in this file and end up with 3 different vectors, one called
> breakfast which contains "bacon", "eggs", sausage" One called lunch with
> "sandwich", "apple"... etc
>
> So is there a way to do this with a file like this?
>
> Or would I need to transpose the file using something like Perl? And since
> the vectors are not all of equal length, would I have to also increase the
> size of the shorter lines by adding NAs? I'm working with a file much bigger
> than this and this could be a bit of a bother...
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Jim
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