[R] Can R replicate this data manipulation in SAS?

[peter dalgaard]

On Apr 22, 2011, at 18:50 , Douglas Bates wrote:

> What about reading a deck of punched cards with the cards statement in
> SAS?  How do you propose to do that in R?

Actually, with the new text= argument to read.table in r-devel, it should be rather easy.... (given that you can find a card-punch and punched-card reader, of course).

(And it's "datalines" nowadays, although everyone still uses "cards"...)

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