You data has 4 fields (separated by blanks) and that is what you are reading. Just write some code to combine the fields:
newDF <- data.frame(time=as.POSIXct(paste(oldDF[[1]], oldDF[[2]]), name=paste(oldDF[[3]], oldDF[[4]])) On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Sebastian Kruk <residuo.so...@gmail.com> wrote: > I a have a text file where every line is like that: > > "2007-12-03 13:50:17 Juan Perez" > ("yy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss First Name Second Name") > > I would like to make a data frame with two column one for date and the > other one for name. > > When I use read.delim it was transformed in a data frame with 4 colums. > > Bye, > > Sebastián. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.