See: ?read.fwf Example: > ff <- tempfile() > cat(file = ff, "1003061490000000011608", "1003061490000000011608", sep = "\n")
> read.fwf(ff, widths = c(2,8,10), colClasses = "character") V1 V2 V3 1 10 03061490 0000000116 2 10 03061490 0000000116 > unlink(ff) Hth, Adrian On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 3:40 AM, Paolo Letizia <paolo.leti...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have row data in a text file, where each row consists of 22 numerical > characters. Each row consists of three different column but there is no > separator. Specifically, the first two characters of the raw represent the > first column of data, the subsequent 8 characters represent the second > column of data and the last 12 characters represent the third column of > data. An example follows: > > row data: > 1003061490000000011608 > > The first two characters, "10", is the column "Regime"; the subsequent 8 > characters, "03061490", is the column "Industry", and the last 12 > characters, "000000011608", is the column dollar value. How do I import the > column data into R without having any separator in the text file? > Thanks for your help, Paolo. > > [[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. > -- Adrian Dusa University of Bucharest Romanian Social Data Archive Soseaua Panduri nr.90 050663 Bucharest sector 5 Romania [[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.
