Jason Barnhart <jasoncbarnhart <at> msn.com> writes: > > These posts may be helpful. > http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/05/06/5776.html > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2002-May/021145.html > > Using scan directly may also work for you rather than read.fwf. > > Also, there are posts regarding using other tools such a 'perl' or 'cut' to > prepocess the data > before reading with R. Searching the archives with those keywords should > help.
I new user should not have to learn "perl","cut", "awk", etc simply to be able to use R. Does not make sense to me. ______________________________________________ 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.