Re: [R] Trouble pulling data from a messy ASCII file...

2008-12-19 Thread James Planey
Thanks to all who replied! This is great! I am going to dig into this over the holidays. I will post what I end up with... Thanks again, James Planey Graduate Research Assistant Department of Animal Biology University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign -- View this message in context: http://www.

Re: [R] Trouble pulling data from a messy ASCII file...

2008-12-18 Thread jim holtman
Here is an example of some code that might do it for you:: > input <- readLines(textConnection("19 > c:/data/WF-100/2008/20080911/trk/20080911.013115.007.17.txt + 10 s name of program that wrote this file trkplt name of program that wrote this file + 10 GORDON machine that generated this fi

Re: [R] Trouble pulling data from a messy ASCII file...

2008-12-17 Thread Titan8883
The output I would be looking for would be one row for each data file with columns for each variable, so using a .csv example with a few variables would be: - File_name,date_written,program_ver,data_file_ver,bin_width 20080911

Re: [R] Trouble pulling data from a messy ASCII file...

2008-12-17 Thread jim holtman
It would be helpful if you could show what the output would be for the example given. Exactly what are 'values' and what would be the 'headings'. As mentioned before, you can use readLines and then parse the data you want, but something like Perl might be easier, but it is hard to tell from the m

Re: [R] Trouble pulling data from a messy ASCII file...

2008-12-17 Thread Sarah Goslee
I usually use Unix tools to process really data beforehand (sed, awk), but if you want a pure R solution it is usually possible to kludge something together with scan() working line by line. # read a line # if it contains stuff you aren't interested in, go on to the next line # if it contains one