[Rd] Suggestion for read.table()

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try this:

> raw=
+ "  x   y  z
+   1   2  3
+   4   5  6
+ "
> read.table(textConnection(raw), header = TRUE)
  x y z
1 1 2 3
2 4 5 6



On 8/30/06, gilescrane at verizon.net <gilescrane at verizon.net> wrote:
> First, I compliment you all
> for such a useful project as R.
>
> Suggestion:  If read.table() could
> take input from a character string,
> then one could write
>
> raw=
> "  x   y  z
>   1   2  3
>   4   5  6
> "
> df = read.table(raw,head=TRUE)
>
> Of course, one can
> cat() to write raw into a
> temporary file,
> and read.table() from that file.
> However, direct reading
> might be a good option?
>
> Hope this is useful.
> Cordially
> Giles Crane
> gilescrane at verizon.net
>
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