Thanks. Actually, I thought there was a way to do it with scan only ...
2015-04-15 16:40 GMT+02:00 William Dunlap <wdun...@tibco.com>: > > strsplit(x=sub(pattern="^\\* ", replacement="", x=test), split=" ") > [[1]] > [1] "a" "b" "d" > > [[2]] > [1] "z" "u" "i" "h" "hh" > > [[3]] > [1] "h" "bh" "kk" > > > Bill Dunlap > TIBCO Software > wdunlap tibco.com > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 2:34 PM, 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. >> > > [[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.