Here are the beginning of a R program. I hope it can help you writing the rest of the program.
Regards Martin M. S. Pedersen ---- filename <- "university.data" lines <- readLines(filename) first <- T for (ALine in lines) { ALine <- sub("^ +","",ALine) ALine <- sub(")","",ALine, fixed = T) if (length(grep("def-instance", ALine))) { if (first) { first = F } else { cat(paste(instance,state,control,no_of_students_thous,"\n", sep = ",")) } instance <- sub("(def-instance ","",ALine, fixed = T) next } if (length(grep("state ", ALine))) { state <- sub("(state ","",ALine, fixed = T) next } if (length(grep("control ", ALine))) { control <- sub("(control ","", ALine, fixed = T) next } if (length(grep("no-of-students thous:", ALine))) { no_of_students_thous <- ALine no_of_students_thous <- sub("(no-of-students thous:","", ALine, fixed = T) next } } [[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.