?read.fwf Read Fixed Width Format Files
Please, one copy of your request to the list is sufficient. Rich On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:51 PM, barny <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been trying to get some data from the National Survey for Family > Growth > into R - however, the data is in a .dat file and the data I need doesn't > have any spaces or commas separating fields - rather you have to look into > the codebook and what number of digits along the line the data you need is. > The data I want are the following, where 1,12,int means that the data I'm > interested starts in column 1 and finishes in column 12 and is an integer. > > ('caseid', 1, 12, int), > ('nbrnaliv', 22, 22, int), > ('babysex', 56, 56, int), > ('birthwgt_lb', 57, 58, int), > ('birthwgt_oz', 59, 60, int), > ('prglength', 275, 276, int), > ('outcome', 277, 277, int), > ('birthord', 278, 279, int), > ('agepreg', 284, 287, int), > ('finalwgt', 423, 440, float) > > How can I do this using R? I've written a python programme which basically > does it but it'd be nicer if I could skip the Python bit and just do it > using R. Cheers for any help. > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Getting-codebook-data-into-R-tp4374330p4374330.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
