Is it OK to have NA's? If so you can use read.table(,fill=TRUE) or
read.delim(). Notice that the default in the second option is fill=TRUE.
Cheers
Francisco
From: "Liaw, Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Owen, Jason'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected]
Subject: RE: [R] Reading in a dataset with uneven variable lengths
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 16:24:29 -0400
One possibility is to use read.fwf().
Andy
> From: Owen, Jason
>
> Suppose I have a text file that I want to read into R like the
> following:
>
> X Y
> 649 699
> 657 891
> 714 632
> 849 727
> 721 597
> 791 868
> 874 652
> 405 978
> 733
> 549
> 790
>
> This is a simple example -- I could have a huge file with many
> columns of unequal lengths.
>
> What is the best way to do it? I can't see how a data frame
> can be used. I checked the FAQ and did a web search on the topic
> but I came up empty.
>
> Jason
>
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