Hi Jim, You can read the text file using readLines. This puts each line in the file into an element of a list. Then you can go through the lines manually (e.g. using grep, sub, strsplit) and create your data.frame.
cheers, Paul On 11/18/2011 12:37 PM, Langston, Jim wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been scratching and poking, but basically, the file I need to read has > two delimiters that I need to contend with. The first is that the file > contains > tabs (\t) , instead of newlines (\n), and the second is that the fields > have > | for the seperators. I can easily do a read if I first convert the \t to > \n > and then use read.table to get the file read with the | separator. But, > what I would really like to do, is do this all within R. I have a lot of > files > to read and do analysis on. > > I can read the data into a table using the \t has delimiter, but can't > figure > out how to take that table data and use the | for separation, I've look at > string splits, etc. but haven't figured out how to split the whole table. > > Any thoughts ? hints ? > > Thanks, > > Jim > > > The contents of this e-mail are intended for the named a...{{dropped:6}} > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Paul Hiemstra, Ph.D. Global Climate Division Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) Wilhelminalaan 10 | 3732 GK | De Bilt | Kamer B 3.39 P.O. Box 201 | 3730 AE | De Bilt tel: +31 30 2206 494 http://intamap.geo.uu.nl/~paul http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/paul-hiemstra/20/30b/770 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.