Jason Barnhart <jasoncbarnhart <at> msn.com> writes: > > Not familiar w/ Stata, but these functions read data files and should > provide the functionality you wish. > ?read.fwf > ?read.table > ?scan
None of these seem to read non-coniguous variables from columns; or may be I am missing something. "read.fwf" is not meant for large files according to a post in the archives. Thanks for the pointers. I have read the R data input and output. Anupam. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.