Hi, Just to add: dat1<-read.table(text=" 2010.12.26 00:00:52 688,88 11,69 43,00 11,69 43,00 11,69 43,00 11,69 43,00 11,69 43,00 2010.12.26 00:01:52 696,19 11,69 43,00 ",sep="",header=FALSE,fill=TRUE,dec=",",stringsAsFactors=FALSE) dat2<-na.omit(dat1) dat2$Date<-as.POSIXct(paste(dat2$V1,dat2$V2,sep=" "),format="%Y.%m.%d %H:%M:%S") dat3<-dat2[,c(6,3:5)] colnames(dat3)[2:4]<-paste0("V",2:4) dat3 # Date V2 V3 V4 #1 2010-12-26 00:00:52 688.88 11.69 43 #6 2010-12-26 00:01:52 696.19 11.69 43 A.K.
----- Original Message ----- From: Simonas Kecorius <simolas2...@gmail.com> To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 7:04 AM Subject: [R] split character line into rows Hey R users, suppose we have data: [1] 2010.12.26 00:00:52 688,88 11,69 43,00 [2] 11,69 43,00 [3] 11,69 43,00 [4] 11,69 43,00 [5] 11,69 43,00 [6] 11,69 43,00 [7] 11,69 43,00 [8] 11,69 43,00 [9] 11,69 43,00 [10] 11,69 43,00 [11] 11,69 43,00 [12] 11,69 43,00 [13] 11,69 43,00 [14] 11,69 43,00 [15] 11,69 43,00 [16] 11,69 43,00 [17] 11,69 43,00 [18] 11,69 43,00 [19] 11,69 43,00 [20] 11,69 43,00 [21] 11,69 43,00 [22] 11,69 43,00 [23] 11,69 43,00 [24] 11,69 43,00 [25] 11,69 43,00 [26] 11,69 43,00 [27] 11,69 43,00 [28] 11,69 43,00 [29] 11,69 43,00 [30] 11,69 43,00 [31] 11,69 43,00 [32] 11,69 43,00 [33] 11,69 43,00 [34] 11,69 43,00 [35] 11,69 43,00 [36] 11,69 43,00 [37] 11,69 43,00 [38] 11,69 43,00 [39] 11,69 43,00 [40] 11,69 43,00 [41] 11,69 43,00 [42] 11,69 43,00 [43] 11,69 43,00 [44] 11,69 43,00 [45] 11,69 43,00 [46] 11,69 43,00 [47] 11,69 43,00 [48] 11,69 43,00 [49] 11,69 43,00 [50] 11,69 43,00 [51] 11,69 43,00 [52] 11,69 43,00 [53] 11,69 43,00 [54] 11,69 43,00 [55] 11,69 43,00 [56] 11,69 43,00 [57] 11,69 43,00 [58] 11,69 43,00 [59] 11,69 43,00 [60] 11,69 43,00 [61] 2010.12.26 00:01:52 696,19 11,69 43,00 [62] 11,69 43,00 [63] 11,69 43,00 [64] 11,69 43,00 [65] 11,69 43,00 [66] 11,69 43,00 ..................................... etc. Is there a way to split data into date column, V2, V3 and V4 columns and erase those lines without date, so that data would look like that: date V2 V3 V4 2010.12.26 00:01:52 555 11.67 44 2010.12.26 00:02:52 566 11.67 44 etc. Thanks a lot! -- Simonas Kecorius ** [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.