Re: [R] Reading word by word in a dataset

Thanks, Tony. I got a very good idea of using flush in scan() from your reply, so that I successfully did my little job. But, my next question arises if I want to extract the list of the price items only in the 2nd column in my example. I did it the following way. Is it the right way to do? Or do

RE: [R] Reading word by word in a dataset

Dear Andy, Why does my 'read.table()' NOT work in this example? I have the error, subscript out of bounds, as you see below. My R version is 1.9.0. system(more mtx.ex.1) i1-apple 10$ New_York i2-banana 5$ London i3-strawberry 7$ Japan read.table(mtx.ex.1, colClasses=c(character,NULL,NULL),

RE: [R] Reading word by word in a dataset

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, John wrote: Dear Andy, Why does my 'read.table()' NOT work in this example? I have the error, subscript out of bounds, as you see below. My R version is 1.9.0. ^ That is your problem. It works in the current version of R, 2.0.0. Using

[R] Reading word by word in a dataset

Hello All, I'd like to read first words in lines into a new file. If I have a data file the following, how can I get the first words: apple, banana, strawberry? i1-apple10$ New_York i2-banana 5$London i3-strawberry 7$Japan Is there any similar question already posted

RE: [R] Reading word by word in a dataset

Using R-2.0.0 on WinXPPro, cut-and-pasting the data you have: read.table(clipboard, colClasses=c(character, NULL, NULL)) V1 1 i1-apple 2 i2-banana 3 i3-strawberry HTH, Andy From: j lee Hello All, I'd like to read first words in lines into a new file. If I have a

Re: [R] Reading word by word in a dataset

Liaw, Andy wrote: Using R-2.0.0 on WinXPPro, cut-and-pasting the data you have: read.table(clipboard, colClasses=c(character, NULL, NULL)) V1 1 i1-apple 2 i2-banana 3 i3-strawberry ... and if only the words after - are of interest, the statement can be followed by

RE: [R] Reading word by word in a dataset

Something like this should work: foo - read.table(text2read.txt, colClasses=c(character, NULL, NULL))$V1 foo - gsub(i[0-9]-, , foo) HTH, Andy __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting

Re: [R] Reading word by word in a dataset

Uwe and Andy's solutions are great for many applications but won't work if not all rows have the same numbers of fields. Consider for example the following modification of Lee's example: i1-apple10$ New_York i2-banana i3-strawberry 7$Japan If I copy this to clipboard

RE: [R] Reading word by word in a dataset

Don't give up on read.table() just yet: read.table(clipboard, colClasses=c(character, NULL, NULL), fill=TRUE) V1 1 i1-apple 2 i2-banana 3 i3-strawberry Andy From: Spencer Graves Uwe and Andy's solutions are great for many applications but won't work if not

Re: [R] Reading word by word in a dataset

Trying to make it work when not all rows have the same numbers of fields seems like a good place to use the flush argument to scan() (to skip everything after the first field on the line): With the following copied to the clipboard: i1-apple10$ New_York i2-banana i3-strawberry 7$

Re: [R] Reading word by word in a dataset

Dear Andy Tony: That's great. Unfortunately, I still spend most of my life in the S-Plus world, and read.table in S-Plus 6.2 does not have the fill argument. However, Tony's solution (and my ugly hack) work in both S-Plus 6.2 and R 2.0.0. Thanks again. Spencer Graves