Thanks David, but can read.fwf cope with different record types? For example, if recordtype is the 4th character, I could have:
011125678 ---> This is record Type 1 011136779 ---> This is record Type 1 011124943 ---> This is record Type 1 011286711 ---> This is record Type 2 011234872 ---> This is record Type 2 011135628 ---> This is record Type 1 So, how can I tell read.fwf to take the correct type into account? Thanks again, Hug --- On Mon, 2/1/10, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: From: David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [R] Import fixed-format ascii file with mixed record types To: "trece por ciento" <el13porcie...@yahoo.com> Cc: r-help@r-project.org Date: Monday, February 1, 2010, 12:01 PM On Feb 1, 2010, at 11:40 AM, trece por ciento wrote: > I need to import several ascii files in fixed format with two different > record types. The data comes from European Labor Force Surveys, wich is a > household survey. The first record type is for people over 16 years, and the > second much sorter is for people aged 15 or less (this record has a filler > with several blanks to get the same record length). > The files tipically have 160000 records, with 176 characters per record, the > data is numeric, corresponding to 102 variables, mostly integers (seven > variables have two decimals). My opertating system is Windows XP. > My questions: > 1. Wich do you think is the best way to import the files into R? ?read.fwf > 2. Could you give me any references or examples? There are examples in the help page. > Thanking you in advance, > Hug > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. David Winsemius, MD Heritage Laboratories West Hartford, CT ______________________________________________ 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.
