Hi try to look at read.fwf.
Regards Petr r-help-boun...@r-project.org napsal dne 04.11.2009 11:03:06: > Dear R commnuity, > > Thanks a lot for your help. > I want to read in tables, the problem is that the table is composed in a > difficult way. In ariginal it looks like this: > > 669 736 842101610481029114711811166124312081128117611221026 9581024 992 > 685 720 829 925 995 96010241057116611501104106410711092 983 908 989 904 > 924 896 882 897 909 933 928 907 916 902 > 546 734 784 868 970 954 99210061012101610481045 9821057 989 914 956 960 > 948 947 949 939 916 950 > 562 598 771 827 941 922 905 877 860 862 931 952 954 977 960 901 978 975 > 970 950 973 953 958 931 912 > 558 593 725 786 884 866 838 797 815 802 809 822 853 833 863 852 903 > 9861015 9841019 993 955 932 918 874 518 580 600 764 834 804 814 824 849 > 831 939 757 769 790 809 892 89810251028104410371018 985 932 > 478 559 585 696 812 812 811 867 854 811 814 818 793 760 814 976 > 957104510551067106410501005 948 > 465 528 567 619 703 828 824 830 851 824 823 873 826 787 787 > 9791048105710621083108910841027 944 > > That is, that every 4 digits there is a new number, but when the number > is > 999, R thinks of course that the number consists of more than 4 > digits. So, R can't read in the table. > Is there a way I can tell R, that every 4 digits, a new number begins? > I treif different things with "sep". > data <- read.table ("RA19930101.txt",header=F,sep=) > > Thanks for your help again in this topic. > Sybille > > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------- > UDATA Umweltschutz und Datenanalyse > Hydrologie, Klimafolgenforschung, Boden- und Grundwasserschutz > carl-Schüllerstr. 30 1/3 95444 Bayreuth<< > www.udata.de > > Tel. 0921/78638573 (Durchwahl) > wen...@udata.de > > Firmensitz: Neustadt an der Weinstraße > Inhaber: Dr. Jörg Scherzer > > ______________________________________________ > 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.