Re: [R] reading heterogeneous CSV

2009-08-11 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
This will read it in all in and then you can decide what you want to do with it: Lines <- "DISKREAD,metadata about disks MEM,metadata about memory ,observation-identifier,time,date DISKREAD,observation-identifier,data about disks MEM,observation-identifier,data about memory" DF <- read.table(

[R] reading heterogeneous CSV

2009-08-11 Thread Allen S. Rout
Greetings, all. I've got a datafile I've been working with that has an ideosyncratic, heterogeneous format. It's grossly like: [...] DISKREAD,metadata about disks MEM,metadata about memory ,observation-identifier,time,date DISKREAD,observation-identifier,data about disks MEM,observation-