Re: [R] Variable length datafile import problem

2011-02-20 Thread John Kane
old > Subject: RE: [R] Variable length datafile import problem > To: "John Kane" , "r-help@r-project.org" > > Received: Friday, February 18, 2011, 3:16 AM > Hi John, > > seems there is no easy way. I'll just precondition it with > AWK as des

Re: [R] Variable length datafile import problem

2011-02-18 Thread Peter Ehlers
__ From: John Kane [jrkrid...@yahoo.ca] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 11:54 AM To: Ingo Reinhold Subject: RE: [R] Variable length datafile import problem Generally most of the gurus are in this list. Hopefully someone will take an interest in the problem. I suspect th

Re: [R] Variable length datafile import problem

2011-02-18 Thread Ingo Reinhold
hat's it. Many thanks again for the effort. Ingo From: John Kane [jrkrid...@yahoo.ca] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 11:54 AM To: Ingo Reinhold Subject: RE: [R] Variable length datafile import problem Generally most of the gurus are in this list. Ho

Re: [R] Variable length datafile import problem

2011-02-15 Thread John Kane
]Mediafire[/b][/url] is a convenient place. --- On Tue, 2/15/11, Ingo Reinhold wrote: > From: Ingo Reinhold > Subject: [R] Variable length datafile import problem > To: "r-help@r-project.org" > Received: Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 9:12 AM > Dear all, > > I am stuck

Re: [R] Variable length datafile import problem

2011-02-15 Thread jim holtman
Also look at the "flush" and "fill" arguments on read.table to see if that helps. On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Ingo Reinhold wrote: > Dear all, > > I am stuck the reading of a file which has 100s of rows and variable column > counts. > > The tab-limited data file looks something like: > > So

Re: [R] Variable length datafile import problem

2011-02-15 Thread Dimitri Liakhovitski
Can you try to change the extention of your file (make it a .txt or open it in Excel and save it as a .csv file) - and then read it in? Dimitri On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Ingo Reinhold wrote: > Dear all, > > I am stuck the reading of a file which has 100s of rows and variable column > coun

[R] Variable length datafile import problem

2011-02-15 Thread Ingo Reinhold
Dear all, I am stuck the reading of a file which has 100s of rows and variable column counts. The tab-limited data file looks something like: Some_Text 131231534-1191010178 Some_Taxt 131331434-2191010178 Some_Tsxt 132441334