Good Day,
I have several ASCII data files that I would like to import into R.
They all have a SAS import file which is used to bring the data into SAS
and I am hoping to use this to bring the data into R. There are lots of
variables involved and the ASCII data file is 2308 columns long so I
would certainly prefer to figure out a smart way of converting the data
to R.
The ASCII data is a long stream of numbers (no field separators or
delimiters) while the SAS import file looks like:
libname mine 'c:\';
data mine.fh4;
infile 'd:\fh4.txt' lrecl=2309;
input
perstat1 $1-2
linenum $3-4
I_wave1 $5-5
bnocost1 $6-10
bnosta1 $11-12
So SAS uses the position of the ASCII character to determine what
variable the data should be in while the SCAN or the READ. FWF function
of R uses the width of the column.
Does anyway have a smart and/or automated way of moving my ASCII data
into R using this .SAS program ?
--
-Don
Don Catanzaro, PhD
Landscape Ecologist
dgcatanz...@gmail.com
16144 Sigmond Lane
Lowell, AR 72745
479-751-3616
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