Welcome!
Dirty D wrote:
Hi, everyone,
I'm new to R and the List, and excited to be here. I am coming from a
background working in SPSS 16, primarily, which has a lot of easy
options for reading in data. I am working in R in an Ubuntu Linux
environment, and I'm learning with R Commander.
I work with R in Ubuntu also, it is a good decision I think. I use ESS
(a package for Emacs), however.
Now, here's my question. In my line of work, I'm used to getting data in
some kind of flat ASCII format with a separate file indicating which
columns correspond to which variables. In the Venables and Ripley book
on S/R that I'm reading, there doesn't seem to be a way to read this
kind of data format into R, and I haven't found anything online.
Certainly, look up read.table (?read.table in R) and in V&R, bottom of
page 21 specifically. There is also an R Data Import/Export manual on
the project's site. But, read.table is almost surely what you're
looking for.
test <- read.table("/path/to/file", header = TRUE)
This is a common example if your text file has a first row of variable
names. See pages 21-22 for more examples.
HTH!
If anyone has the tine, I'd sure appreciate a little guidance.
Thanks,
DD
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