Hello
Yes I have used read.table("file name", sep="\t") for reading the text file
Thank you
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:07 PM, jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What have you tried? Check the Intro manual for hints.
>
> ?read.table probably using sep='\t'
>
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Sunita22 <sunita...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> I have to import 2 txt files into R. 1 file contains the data and the
>> other
>> contains the header, column headings, datatypes and labels for the data.
>>
>> I have 2 problems:
>>
>> 1) my data file has mixed type of data e.g. 1 2 3 4 5 3-5 02/04/06 3 4 5
>> and
>> so on, the data file is tab separated. when I import it, the data is
>> getting
>> stored in one single variable say V1. I need to separate it into rows and
>> columns. how do I this? Which commands in R would be useful for the same?
>>
>> 2) The other file is also tab separated. the 6 lines contains header and
>> introduction as in the name of the dataset, year, etc. and then column
>> names
>> its datatypes and labels. After importing the data in this file also gets
>> stored in one single variable. I need to separate it into rows and
>> columns.
>> how do I this? Which commands in R would be useful for the same?
>>
>> Thank you in advance
>>
>> Regards
>> Sunita
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