Re: [R] read a file of text with read.table

2014-06-26 Thread David Winsemius
On Jun 26, 2014, at 12:59 AM, Ron Crump wrote: > Hi Carol, >> It might be a primitive question but I have a file of text and there is no >> separator between character on each line and the strings on each line have >> the same length. The format is like the following >> >> absfjdslf >> jfdldsk

Re: [R] read a file of text with read.table

2014-06-26 Thread Ron Crump
Hi Carol, It might be a primitive question but I have a file of text and there is no separator between character on each line and the strings on each line have the same length. The format is like the following absfjdslf jfdldskjff jfsldfjslk When I read the file with read.table("myfile",colCl

Re: [R] read a file of text with read.table

2014-06-26 Thread Rolf Turner
On 26/06/14 21:21, carol white wrote: Hi, with read.fwf, it works. But I still don't understand why it doesn't work with read.table since the sep by default is "", which is the case and in one trial, I used read.table("myfile",colClasses = "character", stringsAsFactors=FALSE, and stil didn't

Re: [R] read a file of text with read.table

2014-06-26 Thread Göran Broström
Carol, while sep="" is the default, it really means 'whitespace', see the documentation of 'sep'. Göran Broström On 2014-06-26 11:21, carol white wrote: Hi, with read.fwf, it works. But I still don't understand why it doesn't work with read.table since the sep by default is "", which is t

Re: [R] read a file of text with read.table

2014-06-26 Thread Rolf Turner
On 26/06/14 20:47, Frede Aakmann Tøgersen wrote: Hi Actually I had to read the man before answering Carol. Here it goes: stringsAsFactors: logical: should character vectors be converted to factors? Note that this is overridden by 'as.is' and 'colClasses', both of which al

Re: [R] read a file of text with read.table

2014-06-26 Thread carol white
Hi, with read.fwf, it works. But I still don't understand why it doesn't work with read.table since the sep by default is "", which is the case and in one trial, I used  read.table("myfile",colClasses = "character", stringsAsFactors=FALSE, and stil didn't work but it should have. Regards,

Re: [R] read a file of text with read.table

2014-06-26 Thread Frede Aakmann Tøgersen
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Re: [R] read a file of text with read.table

2014-06-26 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, Try using option stringsAsFactors = FALSE. Hope this helps, Rui Barradas On 26/06/2014 09:32, carol white wrote: It might be a primitive question but I have a file of text and there is no separator between character on each line and the strings on each line have the same length. The

Re: [R] read a file of text with read.table

2014-06-26 Thread Rolf Turner
On 26/06/14 19:32, carol white wrote: It might be a primitive question All questions are primitive; some questions are more primitive than others. but I have a file of text and there is no separator between character on each line and the strings on each line have the same length. The format

Re: [R] read a file of text with read.table

2014-06-26 Thread Frede Aakmann Tøgersen
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[R] read a file of text with read.table

2014-06-26 Thread carol white
It might be a primitive question but I have a file of text and there is no separator between character on each line and the strings on each line have the same length. The format is like the following absfjdslf jfdldskjff jfsldfjslk When I read the file with read.table("myfile",colClasses = "cha