On Mar 14, 2011, at 16:32 , Allan Engelhardt wrote: > You could try > > scan(what=character(0), sep=",", file=textConnection("first,second,third")) > > > but better to put the strings in a file (say, strings.txt), one per line, and > read it using > > scan("strings.txt", what=character(0), sep="\n")
Also, things like this come in handy at times: ## From dept. of slightly dirty trix: txt <- "fmffmfmfmfmfmmmmfmmmffmff" lizards$sex <- factor(unlist(strsplit(txt,"")),levels=c("m","f")) It is easily generalized to include a delimiter. -- Peter Dalgaard Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.