Re: [Rd] Reading a repeated fixed format

2005-08-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Douglas Bates wrote: > The Harwell-Boeing format for exchanging matrices is one of those > lovely legacy formats that is based on fixed-format Fortran > specifications and 80 character records. (Those of you who don't know > why they would be 80 characters instead of, say, 6

[Rd] Reading a repeated fixed format

2005-08-10 Thread Douglas Bates
The Harwell-Boeing format for exchanging matrices is one of those lovely legacy formats that is based on fixed-format Fortran specifications and 80 character records. (Those of you who don't know why they would be 80 characters instead of, say, 60 or 100 can ask one of us old-timers some day and