On Mar 14, 2011, at 16:32 , Allan Engelhardt wrote:
> You could try
>
> scan(what=character(0), sep=",", file=textConnection("first,second,third"))
>
>
> but better to put the strings in a file (say, strings.txt), one per line, and
> read it using
>
> scan("strings.txt", what=character(0), sep="\n")
Also, things like this come in handy at times:
## From dept. of slightly dirty trix:
txt <- "fmffmfmfmfmfmmmmfmmmffmff"
lizards$sex <- factor(unlist(strsplit(txt,"")),levels=c("m","f"))
It is easily generalized to include a delimiter.
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