Re: [R] Importing data from text file with mixed format

2009-10-26 Thread delnatan
All these have been really helpful. Once again I see that anything's possible in R! Thank you for the suggestion Bill, I think arranging the data in one data frame is a good idea. -Daniel William Dunlap wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org >> [mail

Re: [R] Importing data from text file with mixed format

2009-10-25 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
This solution uses strapply in gsubfn. It assumes the timepoints are 1, 2, 3, ... (although later we remove this restriction just in case). The first line reads in myfile. The second line reads the numeric rows into matrix s. The third line reads in the column names. The fourth line converts to

Re: [R] Importing data from text file with mixed format

2009-10-25 Thread William Dunlap
> -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of delnatan > Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 8:32 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Importing data from text file with mixed format > > > Hi, > I'm having difficulty

Re: [R] Importing data from text file with mixed format

2009-10-25 Thread jim holtman
try this: > # read in the file > x <- readLines(textConnection("#begin text file + Timepoint 1 + ObjectNumber Volume SurfaceArea + 1 5.3 9.7 + 2 4.9 8.3 + 3 5.0 9.1 + 4 3.5