I am pleased to report that R already has the answer to my request in
the
strip.white=TRUE,
argument. With this argument
tmp3 <- read.fwf("temp.dat",
na.strings="-999",
strip.white=TRUE,
col.names=LETTERS[1:4],
widths=c(2,4,5,5))
tmp3
behaves exactly like I want it to behave.
Please add it explicitly to the documentation for read.fwf and all will be well.
Currently it is there only by indirect reference to read.table.
Rich
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