On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Sebastian Kruk <residuo.so...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I have a text with 7 words per line and I would like to put first > and second word joined in a vector and the rest of words one per > column in a matrix how can I do it? > > First 2 lines of my text file: > "2008/12/31 12:23:31 numero 343.233.233 Rodeo Vaca Ruido" > "2010/02/01 02:35:31 palabra 111.111.222 abejorro Rodeo Vaca" > > Results: > > Vector: > 2008/12/31 12:23:31 > 2010/02/01 02:35:31 > > Matrix > "numero" 343.233.233 "Rodeo" "Vaca" "Ruido" > "palabra" 111.111.222 "abejorro" "Rodeo" "Vaca" >
Here are two solutions. Both solutions are three statements long (read in the data, display the vector, display the matrix). Replace textConnection(text) with "myfile.dat", say, in each. 1. Here is a sub solution: L <- readLines(textConnection(Lines)) sub("(\\S+ \\S+) .*", "\\1", L) sub("\\S+ \\S+ ", "", L) 2. Here is a solution using zoo: Lines <- "2008/12/31 12:23:31 numero 343.233.233 Rodeo Vaca Ruido 2010/02/01 02:35:31 palabra 111.111.222 abejorro Rodeo Vaca" library(zoo) z <- read.zoo(textConnection(Lines), index = 1:2, FUN = function(x) paste(x[,1], x[,2])) time(z) # the vector coredata(z) # the matrix Another possibility would be to convert to chron or POSIXct at the same time as reading it in: # chron library(chron) z <- read.zoo(textConnection(Lines), index = 1:2, FUN = function(x) as.chron(paste(x[,1], x[,2]), format = "%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S")) # POSIXct z <- read.zoo(textConnection(Lines), index = 1:2, FUN = function(x) as.POSIXct(paste(x[,1], x[,2]), format = "%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S")) ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.