Re: [R] Importing data with different delimters

Greg Snow wrote: > It looks like your original data may be tab seperated, if that is the case > then just use read.delim or use sep='\t' in read.table or scan. > I think that was only half the problem. If you do that, you end up with one column containing both City and State, comma-separated. P

Re: [R] Importing data with different delimters

Hi David, If the delimier is "tab" try this. my.df<-read.table("my_file.txt", head=T, sep="\t") Cheers, Miltinho Brazil > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Arnold > > Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 5:15 PM > > To: r-hel

Re: [R] Importing data with different delimters

It looks like your original data may be tab seperated, if that is the case then just use read.delim or use sep='\t' in read.table or scan. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare [EMAIL PROTECTED] (801) 408-8111 > -Original Message- > From: [EMA

Re: [R] Importing data with different delimters

Assuming that the only problem is the blank in the city names, here is one way of doing it: > inFile <- textConnection("City State JanTemp Lat Long + Mobile, AL 44 31.288.5 + Montgomery, AL 38 32.986.8 + Phoenix, AZ 35 33.6112.5 + Little Rock, AR 31