Re: [R] problem with white space

2008-03-30 Thread jim holtman
Here is one way of doing it. I would suggest that you read in the data with readLines and then combine into one single string so that you can use substring on it. Since you did not provide provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code, I will take a guess at that your data looks

Re: [R] problem with white space

2008-03-30 Thread jim holtman
How long is it taking? Can you send me the code that you are using. Another technique is to recode you characters into numbers and store them as integers. You can then sample the values and reconstruct the output. Here is a faster way: # create some test data -- might be read in the readLines