[R] Importing data with different delimters

[Peter Dalgaard]

Greg Snow wrote:
> It looks like your original data may be tab seperated, if that is the case then just use read.delim or use sep='\t' in read.table or scan.
>   
I think that was only half the problem. If you do that, you end up with
one column containing both City and State, comma-separated. Presumably,
the path of least resistance is just to do this and then use string
processing with sub()  or strsplit() to split the "City, State" strings.

-pd
>   
>> I have a data file with 56 entries that looks like this:
>>
>> City State      JanTemp Lat     Long
>> Mobile, AL      44      31.2    88.5
>> Montgomery, AL  38      32.9    86.8
>> Phoenix, AZ     35      33.6    112.5
>> Little Rock, AR 31      35.4    92.8
>> Los Angeles, CA 47      34.3    118.7
>> San Francisco, CA       42      38.4    123.0
>>
>> I would like to "read" this data into a dataframe. Is it
>> possible to do without editing the datafile?
>>
>> D.
>>     

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