Dear R-WinEdit users,
a) What is an R-WinEdit user?
b) I guess you mean R-WinEdt (without an i) implying the plug-in for the WinEdt editor? WinEdit is another editor that does not support R very closely, AFAIK.
c) The following questions are completely unrelated to any editor, so why do you ask only a very small (empty?) subset of the R community?
I have a simple question, but somehow I cannot find the answer even though I tried a lot!
I have an unstructured ASCII-file and I want to import it into a matrix m in R, so that every character is defined by m[i;j]. The rows are not
d) What does m[i;j] mean? If we are speaking R, I guess you mean m[i,j]?
of the same length.
The file looks like the following shortened abstract example:
name: xxxxx xxxx age: 9.9.99 record number: 999 title: xxxxx xxxx xxx keywords: xxx xx
"white space"
name: yyyy yyyyyyyyyyyy age: 8.8.88 record number: 8 title: yyyy yy yyyy keywords: yyyyyyyyyyy yyyyyyyy yyy
"white space"
The result should be for example: m[1;1]=n
So what aboutreading all lines, and storing separate characters as vectors in a list using strsplit().
L <- strsplit(readLines(filename), "")
L[[i]][j]
A matrix seems to be the wrong way with unequal line lengths.
Uwe Ligges
I would be very grateful for your help!
Michael Graber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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