Is there a way in R to select certain characters from a line of text? I
have some data that is presently in a large number of text files, and I
would like to be able to select elements of each text file (elements are
always on the same line, in the same position) and organize them into a
table. Is there a tool to select text in this way in R? What I am looking
for would be somewhat similar to the left() and right() functions in Excel.
I have looked at the parse() and scan() functions, but don't think they can
do what I want (although I could be wrong).
Thank you,
Tim
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