Hi Hermann, This isn't much more elegant, but test.list<-sapply(test,function(x) { strsplit(x," ") },simplify=TRUE) names(test.list)<-NULL
Jim On 4/15/15, Hermann Norpois <hnorp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I try to open a text file test.txt with the content > > * a b d > * z u i h hh > * h bh kk > > so that I get a list with each line as a vector with the letters as > elements of the the vector. > > My approach ... > test <- scan ("test.txt", what="character", sep="\n") > Read 3 items >> test.list <- lapply (test, function (x) {a <- unlist (strsplit(x," ")); a > <- a[-1]}) >> test.list > [[1]] > [1] "a" "b" "d" > > [[2]] > [1] "z" "u" "i" "h" "hh" > > [[3]] > [1] "h" "bh" "kk" > > ... the result is okay but I dont think it is an elegant solution. One > comment: I dont know how many lines my "real" test.txt will have. > Thanks Hermann > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.