Does this give you what you want: > x <- read.table(textConnection("p(1) 10 + p(1) 3 + p(1) 4 + p(2) 20 + p(2) 30 + p(2) 40 + p(3) 4 + p(3) 1 + p(1) 2"), as.is=TRUE) > # remove parenthesis > x$V1 <- gsub("[()]", "", x$V1) > > > x V1 V2 1 p1 10 2 p1 3 3 p1 4 4 p2 20 5 p2 30 6 p2 40 7 p3 4 8 p3 1 9 p1 2 >
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:13 PM, oscar linares <wins...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Rxperts, > > I have a varaibles data file that looks like this > > p(1) 10 > p(1) 3 > p(1) 4 > p(2) 20 > p(2) 30 > p(2) 40 > p(3) 4 > p(3) 1 > p(1) 2 > > I cannot process these data with R because it does not like the parentheses. > How can I get these to look like: > > p1 10 > p1 3 > p1 4 > p2 20 > p2 30 > p2 40 > p3 4 > p3 1 > p3 2 > > The data is in a tab delimited text file and I want to get it into a > data.frame(). > > Many thanks in advance. > > OAL > p1 > p1 > > -- > Oscar > Oscar A. Linares > Molecular Medicine Unit > Bolles Harbor > Monroe, Michigan > > [[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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.