[R] Separator of data

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 21:59:19 CEST 2011


try this:

> x <- read.fwf(textConnection("188556644
+ 225588666
+ 558888555"), width = rep(1,9))
>
> x
  V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9
1  1  8  8  5  5  6  6  4  4
2  2  2  5  5  8  8  6  6  6
3  5  5  8  8  8  8  5  5  5
>


On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Trying To learn again
<tryingtolearnagain at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Hi all,
>
> I have a matrix like this:
>
> 188556644
> 225588666
> 558888555
>
> I try to read the table using read table but if I put sep="" I have seen it
> expects a white space, is there a "sep" option to  read this matrix so
> each single number is a position of the matrix
>
> You see this matrix would be an 3x9 matrix
>
> I tried other option but also didn´t worked.
>
>  If sep = "" (the default for read.table) the separator is ‘white space’,
> that is one or more spaces, tabs, newlines or carriage returns.
>
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