Marshall Feldman <marsh <at> uri.edu> writes: > > Regarding the various methods people have suggested, what if a typical > tab-delimited data line looks like: > > SMS11000000000000001 1990 M01 688.0 > > and the SAS INPUT statement is > > INPUT survey $ 1-2 seasonal $ 3 state $ 4-5 area $ 6-10 supersector > $ 11-12 @13 industry $8. datatype $ 21-22 year period $ value footnote $ ; > > Note that most data lines have no footnote item, as in the sample. > > Here (I think) we'd want all the character variables to be read as > factors, possibly "year" as a date, and "value" as numeric. > > Marsh
Hi Marshall, Maybe I'm missing the point, but wouldn't read.fwf do most of what you want? Cheers, Jonathan ______________________________________________ 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.
