You could use the strapply function from the gsubfn package to extract the data from strings. This will return a list that you could use with do.call(rbind(
The stringr package may have something similar or an alternative (but I am less familiar with that package). On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Frank Singleton <b17fly...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for a great environmentfor statistical computing :-) > > I have some input data in a file ("input_kvpairs.csv") of the form > > key1=23, key2=67, key3="hello there" > key1=7, key2=22, key3="how are you" > key1=2, key2=77, key3="nice day, thanks" > > Now in my head I wish it was of the form ("input.csv") > > #key1, key2, key3 > 23, 67, "hello there" > 7, 22, "how are you" > 2, 77, "nice day, thanks" > > so I could do > > data <- read.csv("input.csv", header=TRUE) > > where the header column names are derived from the key names dynamically, > and I could access the data using normal data$key1 or data$key2 mechanism. > > I guess I could just pre process the file first using python etc to create > a CSV file with column header derived from key names, and values derived > from > key values, but I am interested to see how experienced R folks would > handle this > inside R. > > Thanks, > > Frank > > ______________________________**________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-help<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/** > posting-guide.html <http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. 538...@gmail.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.