You need to use connections to read block by block. On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Siew Leng TENG wrote:
> Hi, > > I have a data file which contains multiple data types > (char and numeric) alongside with line spaces, tabs > and spaces. I hope to extract out the numeric blocks > of the data, probably as matrices or dataframes where > each line in the data block is a corresponding row in > the dataframe/ matrix. > > I have tried using many R read functions but they do > not seem to yield the appropriate structure that > allows the extraction of the numeric blocks correctly > (due to the line spaces, tabs and spaces). > > I gratefully appreciate any advice and suggestion on > how to obtain the desired data matrices/ dataframes > from this data file in R. > > Thank you, > Siew-Leng > *Using R1.7.1. on windows ME, and on Unix. > > ------------------------------------ > My data file contains data in the following block > structure : > > 1) block of a summary (char) > 2) line spaces > 3) text line > 4) Data : stored as : > number \t number (spc) number (spc) number (spc) ... > and so on. > [the number of numeric values stored at this line is > not fixed] > 5) same structure from 2 - 4 > > An example of my data (in exact format) is given below > : > > > Final results > Final value 75.162993 > First case value 11 > First case value 10 > Case indices > 3 4 1 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 > > Estimates : > 8.875350 > 3.894280 > 7.972684 > 4.934348 > 0.012406 > 0.002134 > -0.024216 > 0.072946 > -0.000468 > 0.042769 > -0.126641 > > Final components : > 3 0 2 2 > > 4 0 1 > > 1 > > 5 0 0 0 1 2 > > 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 > > 7 1 1 1 1 1 > > 8 1 1 1 1 > > 9 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 > > 10 2 2 > > 11 0 2 > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
