On 17.05.2012 14:17, Richard Iles wrote:
I am trying to import Indian National Sample Survey Data. It is ASCII flat
and an example is below

   001460306025001117101011117111201*01*000000211 270104070204093
002460306025001117101011117111201*02*0000008011116104910519572 022  2600
1150    30    55   170  4005  003460306025001117101011117111201*03*
0000111039204112  222


Do you have a file format specification? This is probably some fixed width formatted file, hence read.fwf may help to import the data. See ?read.fwf and the R Data Import/Export manual.

Best,
Uwe Ligges


Previous post don't seem to provide much help. I have an document outlining
the layout of the data, but don't know how to start. An example of the
layout is that the values in bold indicate separate levels.Example of
layout is below:

       Sl.No. Item Blk Item Col Len Byte Position Remarks  1 Common Items
   33 1  - 33 Auto-duplicated  2 Level  2 34  - 35  "02" Generated  3 Filler
5 36  - 40 "00000" Generated  4 HHS Size 3 1 2 41  - 42  5 NIC Code(5-digit)
3 2 5 43  - 47  6 NCO Code(3-digit) 3 3 3 48  - 50  7 HHS type 3 4 1 51  -
51  8 Religion 3 5 1 52  - 52
As is obvious, I am relatively new to R. Any constructive advice would be
welcome.

Richard Iles

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