Hi! Does anybody know about an R function for importing paired name/value data, where each pair is separated by a fixed string (e.g., a semi-colon), and within each pair a different delimeter is used (e.g., an equals sign). Example:
x="FirstName=John;LastName=Doe;Age=75;\nFirstName=Jane;LastName=Doe\nLastName=Bloggs;Age=42;FirstName=Joe" Note that the order of the fields differ between the rows/records, and not all rows contain all fields. The result should be a data frame: FirstName LastName Age John Doe 75 Jane Doe Joe Bloggs 42 I guess it’s not too difficult to write a function for this, using a bunch of strsplit functions and perhaps some rbind.fill and type.convert, but if there already exists such a function, there’s no need reinventing the wheel. :) So, does anybody know of such a function? I tried searching for one, but I don’t know what this type of data format is called. -- Karl Ove Hufthammer ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
