Try:
read.table(textConnection(l1), sep = "/", fill = TRUE)
On 5/3/07, Kevin Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a list of data that is delimited by a / and, as long as there is an
> equal number of delimiters, I can parse the data and put it into a data frame:
>
> > t1<-c("a/a/a","b/bb/bbb","ccc/cc/c")
> > t2<-strsplit(t1,"/")
> > t3<-data.frame(t2)
> > t3
> c..a....a....a.. c..b....bb....bbb.. c..ccc....cc....c..
> 1 a b ccc
> 2 a bb cc
> 3 a bbb c
>
> However, if I don't have an equal number of delimiters, this technique
> doesn't work:
>
> > l1<-c("a/a/a","b/bb/bbb","cc/c")
> > l2<-strsplit(l1,"/")
> > l3<-data.frame(l2)
> Error in data.frame(c("a", "a", "a"), c("b", "bb", "bbb"), c("cc", "c" :
> arguments imply differing number of rows: 3, 2
>
> Is there an easy way to get this into a data frame with NA's (or something
> else) where the missing data would be?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Kevin Burke
>
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