Re: [R] how to read this data file into R?

[David Winsemius]

On Feb 2, 2010, at 6:31 PM, Felipe Carrillo wrote:

Convert the file into a csv file( myfile.csv),
delete some of the unwanted rows before importing into R.
Save the file on your working directory and then import into R:

x <- read.csv("myfile.csv")
# Change column names
names(x) <- LETTERS[1:ncol(x)];x

The problem with that solution is that there are an irregular number  
of numbers per row ranging from 8 to 6. You could read in as text with  
readLines but then need to extract by 25 lines at a time and then  
cbind the segments. Doable mind you, but I suspect faster with a  
spreadsheet intermediate solution.

The real solution is to grab the miscreant sender by the throat , er,   
tactfully discuss with your valued customer ,,, and shake out a  
machine readable form that has all of one row in a row.

--
David.


Change your column names to whatever you want

Felipe D. Carrillo
Supervisory Fishery Biologist
Department of the Interior
US Fish & Wildlife Service
California, USA


--- On Tue, 2/2/10, song song <rprojecth...@gmail.com> wrote:

From: song song <rprojecth...@gmail.com>
Subject: [R] how to read this data file into R?
To: r-help@r-project.org
Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 2:55 PM

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