Regarding the various methods people have suggested, what if a typical
tab-delimited data line looks like:
SMS11000000000000001 1990 M01 688.0
and the SAS INPUT statement is
INPUT survey $ 1-2 seasonal $ 3 state $ 4-5 area $ 6-10 supersector
$ 11-12 @13 industry $8. datatype $ 21-22 year period $ value footnote $ ;
Note that most data lines have no footnote item, as in the sample.
Here (I think) we'd want all the character variables to be read as
factors, possibly "year" as a date, and "value" as numeric.
Marsh
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Gary Miller <> wrote:
>> Hi R Users,
>>
>> Is there a equivalent command in R where I can read in raw data? For
>> example
>> I'm looking for equivalent R code for following SAS code:
>>
>> DATA survey;
>> INPUT id sex $ age inc r1 r2 r3 ;
>> DATALINES;
>> 1 F 35 17 7 2 2
>> 17 M 50 14 5 5 3
>> 33 F 45 6 7 2 7
>> 49 M 24 14 7 5 7
>> 65 F 52 9 4 7 7
>> 81 M 44 11 7 7 7
>> 2 F 34 17 6 5 3
>> 18 M 40 14 7 5 2
>> 34 F 47 6 6 5 6
>> 50 M 35 17 5 7 5
>> ;
>>
>> Any help would be highly appreciated,
>> Gary
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