Check read.table (?read.table). --- On Wed, 24/2/10, RagingJim <nowa0...@flinders.edu.au> wrote:
> From: RagingJim <nowa0...@flinders.edu.au> > Subject: [R] reading "surfer" files > To: r-help@r-project.org > Received: Wednesday, 24 February, 2010, 3:23 PM > > To the R experts, > > I am currently playing with a program which was designed so > that the outputs > are to be read in "Surfer". I do not have the program, but > the files, can > but put into excel and graphed. I figured i could do the > same thing with R. > > If I open the file with excel, and put the text into > columns, and separate > them by spaces, I can then graph it. But how do I do this > in R? Once I have > done all that in excel and saved it, I can then open it and > do a 3d suface > plot in R, but I would like to skip the excel step. > > Each line looks like this: > > 0.2100209E+03 0.2109997E+03 0.2111866E+03 > 0.2095219E+03 0.2079958E+03 > 0.2088303E+03 0.2095171E+03 0.2104975E+03 > 0.2124125E+03 0.2132827E+03 > 0.2125371E+03 0.2119912E+03 0.2119215E+03 > 0.2127108E+03 0.2147589E+03 > 0.2167924E+03 0.2157783E+03 0.2144353E+03 > 0.2127579E+03 0.2085133E+03 > 0.2065096E+03 0.2037935E+03 0.1973606E+03 > 0.1945031E+03 0.2076126E+03 > 0.2131146E+03 0.2014675E+03 0.1999074E+03 > 0.1994730E+03 0.2003694E+03 > 0.2003093E+03 0.2017771E+03 0.2070309E+03 > 0.1945123E+03 0.1892468E+03 > 0.1857383E+03 0.1817865E+03 0.1791424E+03 > 0.1785881E+03 0.1791883E+03 > 0.1803020E+03 0.1797575E+03 0.1807816E+03 > 0.1835612E+03 0.1866963E+03 > 0.1882194E+03 0.1919594E+03 0.1940257E+03 > 0.1977790E+03 0.1970629E+03 > 0.1983556E+03 0.1990551E+03 0.1999159E+03 > 0.2016027E+03 0.2029541E+03 > 0.2049124E+03 0.2077511E+03 0.2081407E+03 > 0.2074211E+03 0.2082496E+03 > 0.2088355E+03 0.2089197E+03 0.2106171E+03 > 0.2125163E+03 > > The first thing I have to do is remove the first 4 lines > (which are just > file information), and then separate each value into its > own column. How do > I go about doing that? > > Cheers lads. > -- > View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/reading-surfer-files-tp1566943p1566943.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
