[R] Dealing with data of varying format

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"MATT BORKOWSKI" <mpb170 at psu.edu> writes:

> The headers are set up with equal spacing so that if you were
> programming in Fortran you could simply create variables of lengths
> 3, 13, 27, 24, and 15 and the data would be read in properly. For
> instance, the third line above would be read into 5 variables as
> demonstrated below, with underscores representing spaces:

> A_ _
> 823109_ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
> METEOR_(POST_/64)_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
> GERMANY_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
> unknown_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

> Is there anything in R that would do something similar? 

Take a look at read.fwf().

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