Hello, assume I have an "unstructured" text line from a connection. Unfortunately, it is in string format:
R> x [1] "\talpha0\t-0.638\t0.4043\t0.4043\t-2.215\t-0.5765\t-0.137\t501\t2000" How can I extract the data included in this string object "x" in order to get the elements for the parameter vector called "alpha0", i.e. -0.638 0.4043 0.0467 0.4043 -2.215 -0.5765 -0.137 501 Any hints how to handle this would be appreciated. Best regards, Christine -- Christine Adrion, Dipl.-Stat., MPH Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen IBE - Institut fuer Medizinische Informations- verarbeitung, Biometrie und Epidemiologie Marchioninistr. 15 D- 81377 Muenchen Tel.: +49 (0)89 7095 - 4483 eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://ibe.web.med.uni-muenchen.de -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-cut-data-elements-included-in-a-text-line-tp18533319p18533319.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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.