On Sep 8, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Lauri Nikkinen wrote:
Ok, I think that I have to give up and try to get this data separated
by some char. It seem pretty much impossible to separate those fields.
Thanks for your help and efforts.
The solution that Henrique offered seems to be a complete one:
read.table(textConnection(gsub("([0-9]+)", ";\\1;", "DF12 This is an
example 1 This
+ DF12 This is an 1232 This is
+ DF14 This is 12334 This is an
+ DF15 This 23 This is an example
+ ")), sep = ";")
V1 V2 V3 V4 V5
1 DF 12 This is an example 1 This
2 DF 12 This is an 1232 This is
3 DF 14 This is 12334 This is an
4 DF 15 This 23 This is an example
Verus what you wanted...
> structure(list(V1 = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L), .Label = "DF", class
+ = "factor"),
+ V2 = c(12L, 12L, 14L, 15L), V3 = structure(c(4L, 3L, 2L,
+ 1L), .Label = c("This", "This is", "This is an", "This is an
example"
+ ), class = "factor"), V4 = c(1L, 1232L, 12334L, 23L), V5 =
+ structure(1:4, .Label = c("This",
+ "This is", "This is an", "This is an example"), class =
+ "factor")), .Names = c("V1",
+ "V2", "V3", "V4", "V5"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA,
+ -4L))
V1 V2 V3 V4 V5
1 DF 12 This is an example 1 This
2 DF 12 This is an 1232 This is
3 DF 14 This is 12334 This is an
4 DF 15 This 23 This is an example
Unless you can be any clearer ... than you have been to this hour.
-L
2009/9/8 Lauri Nikkinen <lauri.nikki...@iki.fi>:
This is the file (see the attachment) that represents the problem I'm
facing with the original file. I'm looking for some generic way to
solve this problem. Thank you for your time.
-L
2009/9/8 Barry Rowlingson <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk>:
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Lauri
Nikkinen<lauri.nikki...@iki.fi> wrote:
But this is not the solution I was looking for. Thanks.
I think the only way you'll get the solution you are looking for is
if you can let us have a copy of the original input file, or at
least
the first few lines - and not pasted into an email because special
characters like spaces and tabs get smushed up and confuse things.
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