Re: [R] scanning data into r

What have you tried? What type of file are you trying to import from? What do you want your data to look like in R? take a look at ?read.table and ?readLines On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:23 AM, joel.green wrote: > Hey > > I am having trouble importing data into R, my data field looks like this

Re: [R] scanning data into r

On Mar 28, 2012, at 2:23 PM, joel.green wrote: Hey I am having trouble importing data into R, my data field looks like this 21 TEST DATA 32 year:2012 33 34 5 36 > read.table(text="21 TEST DATA + 32 year:2012 + 33 + 34 + 5 + 36", fill=TRUE)[1] V1 1 21 2 32 3 33 4 34 5 5 6 36 I r

Re: [R] scanning data into r

Just read into a data.frame with read.table and then subset to use the first column. e.g., your_desired_data <- data.frame(read.table("path_to_file", sep = " ", fill = T)) your_desired_data <- your_desired_data[,1] -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/scanning-data-in

[R] scanning data into r

Hey I am having trouble importing data into R, my data field looks like this 21 TEST DATA 32 year:2012 33 34 5 36 I require the the number at the start of each line however the text is not needed, i am struggling to get R to import the data with out changing the file itself? how do i impor