Use a file() connection (no argument) or a textConnection.
file() is a powerful tool, often overlooked.
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Nurnberg-LaZerte wrote:
> I'm a great fan of read.table(), but this time the data had a lot of cruft. So I
> used readLines() and editted the char vector to eventually get something like this:
> " 23.4 1.5 4.2"
> " 19.1 2.2 4.1"
> and so on. To get that into a 3 col numeric table, I first just used:
>
> writeLines(data,"tempfile")
> read.table("tempfile",col.names=c("A","B","C"))
>
> Works fine, but writing to a temporary file seems ... inelegant? And read.table()
> doesn't take a char vector as a file or connection argument. The following works but
> it seems like a lot of code:
>
> data <- sub(" +","",data) # remove leading blanks for strsplit
> data <- strsplit(data," +") # strsplit returns a list of char
> vectors
> ndata <- character(0) # vectorize the list of char vectors
> for (ii in 1:length(data)) ndata <- c(ndata,data[[ii]])
> ndata <- as.numeric(ndata)
> dim(ndata) <- c(3,length(data))
> data <- t(ndata)
> data.frame(A=data[,1],B=data[,2],C=data[,3])
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