[R] Importing data from a text file with no separator

[Adrian Dușa]

See:
?read.fwf

Example:
> ff <- tempfile()
> cat(file = ff, "1003061490000000011608", "1003061490000000011608", sep =
"\n")

> read.fwf(ff, widths = c(2,8,10), colClasses = "character")
  V1       V2         V3
1 10 03061490 0000000116
2 10 03061490 0000000116

> unlink(ff)

Hth,
Adrian


On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 3:40 AM, Paolo Letizia <paolo.letizia at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have row data in a text file, where each row consists of 22 numerical
> characters. Each row consists of three different column but there is no
> separator. Specifically, the first two characters of the raw represent  the
> first column of data, the subsequent 8 characters represent the second
> column of data and the last 12 characters represent the third column of
> data. An example follows:
>
> row data:
> 1003061490000000011608
>
> The first two characters, "10", is the column "Regime"; the subsequent 8
> characters, "03061490", is the column "Industry", and the last 12
> characters, "000000011608", is the column dollar value. How do I import the
> column data into R without having any separator in the text file?
> Thanks for your help, Paolo.
>
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