[R] how to read in a txt file with some blanks

Patrick Connolly p_connolly at slingshot.co.nz
Thu Nov 29 05:41:07 CET 2007


On Wed, 28-Nov-2007 at 06:46PM -0500, affy snp wrote:

|> Hi list,
|> Is there a way to read in a txt file with some blanks? The ideal way could
|> be to replace blanks with NAs.

If the fields are delimited by tabs, the blanks will automatically
become NAs if you use read.table but without any more details, nobody
can tell if that's all you need to do.


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