On 12-Jan-06 Jeffrey T. Steedle wrote:
> I have data in which each row consists of a long string of number,
> letters, symbols, and blank spaces. I would like to simply scan in
> strings of length 426, but R takes the spaces that occur in the data as
> separators. Is there any way around this?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff Steedle
You could use readLines(), perhaps?
Data<-readLines("datafile")
should give you a vector Data of which each element is a
character string which is one line read from your datafile.
Best wishes,
Ted.
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