[R] read irregular data set

Marc Schwartz MSchwartz at MedAnalytics.com
Thu Sep 30 05:13:28 CEST 2004


On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 21:35, Johnny Zhang wrote:
> Hi Friends,
> I have a data set like this
> 1
> 2 3 4 5
> 6 7
> 8 9 10
> Is there a way to read it into R as a row or column vector?


You can use scan(). Presuming that your data above is in a file called
"MyFile.txt":

> MyData <- scan("MyFile.txt")
Read 10 items

> MyData
 [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10

See ?scan for more information.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz




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