Perhaps read.fwf() can be of use...
Andy
From: Jeffrey T. Steedle
I have data in which each row consists of a long string of number,
letters, symbols, and blank spaces. I would like to simply scan in
strings of length 426, but R takes the spaces that occur in
the data as
separators. Is
I have data in which each row consists of a long string of number,
letters, symbols, and blank spaces. I would like to simply scan in
strings of length 426, but R takes the spaces that occur in the data as
separators. Is there any way around this?
Thanks,
Jeff Steedle
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Jeffrey T. Steedle
On 12-Jan-06 Jeffrey T. Steedle wrote:
I have data in which each row consists of a long string of number,
letters, symbols, and blank spaces. I would like to simply scan in
strings of length 426, but R takes the spaces that occur in the data as
separators. Is there any way around this?