Hello, I try to open a text file test.txt with the content
* a b d * z u i h hh * h bh kk so that I get a list with each line as a vector with the letters as elements of the the vector. My approach ... test <- scan ("test.txt", what="character", sep="\n") Read 3 items > test.list <- lapply (test, function (x) {a <- unlist (strsplit(x," ")); a <- a[-1]}) > test.list [[1]] [1] "a" "b" "d" [[2]] [1] "z" "u" "i" "h" "hh" [[3]] [1] "h" "bh" "kk" ... the result is okay but I dont think it is an elegant solution. One comment: I dont know how many lines my "real" test.txt will have. Thanks Hermann [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.