Strike that one sentence in brackets: "[In point of fact, the R Data Import/Export Manual suggests using perl]", to pre-process data before loading into R. The manual's recommendation only pertains to large fixed width formatted files [see #1], whereas Laurent's data is whitespace-delimited:
> read.table( "Laurents.txt") > read.delim( "Laurents.txt", sep="") Best Regards, Bill. W. Michels, Ph.D. Citation: [#1] https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-data.html#Fixed_002dwidth_002dformat-files ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
