Hi R user I need to read in some values from a computer program output.
I can't change the output format because the developer of the program doesn't allow to change the format of output. There are two formats. First one looks like this if I have 10 variables, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ 1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [ 1] 0.000 [ 2] 0.001 0.000 [ 3] -0.002 0.019 0.000 [ 4] 0.012 -0.004 -0.020 0.000 [ 5] -0.015 0.003 0.011 0.008 0.000 [ 6] 0.005 -0.008 -0.005 0.002 0.005 [ 7] 0.008 -0.007 0.013 0.003 0.007 [ 8] -0.014 -0.011 -0.010 -0.025 0.002 [ 9] 0.006 0.003 -0.010 0.002 -0.020 [10] 0.006 0.010 -0.006 0.005 0.008 [ 6] 0.000 [ 7] -0.037 0.000 [ 8] 0.010 0.027 0.000 [ 9] 0.032 -0.004 0.008 0.000 [10] -0.008 -0.011 0.015 -0.020 0.000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTE: I put [number] to show that this output is similar to a lower diagonal matrix including diagonal. In an ouput there is no [number] The second format looks like this -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [ 2] -0.002 [ 3] 0.003 -0.053 [ 4] -0.026 0.010 0.045 [ 5] 0.023 -0.008 -0.025 -0.016 [ 6] -0.012 0.023 0.013 -0.005 -0.011 [ 7] -0.031 0.031 -0.054 -0.013 -0.027 [ 8] 0.040 0.042 0.031 0.075 -0.007 [ 9] -0.012 -0.009 0.023 -0.005 0.037 [10] -0.013 -0.027 0.014 -0.013 -0.020 [ 7] 0.127 [ 8] -0.035 -0.166 [ 9] -0.083 0.015 -0.027 [10] 0.021 0.047 -0.052 0.048 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: I put [number] to show that this output is similar to a lower diagonal matrix without diagonal. In an ouput there is no [number] The problem of this format is the fixed column length ( 5 columns) To make matter worse, the number of variables keep changing (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60,70,80,90, and 100) so I need to take into the number of variables when I write a R function to read in these numbers. If the number of variables is 80, the output is very long. I only came up with this tedious one. First I read in the output using scan() and then make it a numeric vector I created 10 character vectors. Creating a 100 variable character vector is the most boring things I have ever done. one of the character vectors that matchs with the first 10 variable output is first.10<-c( "i.001.001", "i.002.001","i.002.002", "i.003.001","i.003.002","i.003.003", "i.004.001","i.004.002","i.004.003","i.004.004", "i.005.001","i.005.002","i.005.003","i.005.004","i.005.005", "i.006.001","i.006.002","i.006.003","i.006.004","i.006.005", "i.007.001","i.007.002","i.007.003","i.007.004","i.007.005", "i.008.001","i.008.002","i.008.003","i.008.004","i.008.005", "i.009.001","i.009.002","i.009.003","i.009.004","i.009.005", "i.010.001","i.010.002","i.010.003","i.010.004","i.010.005", "i.006.006", "i.007.006","i.007.007", "i.008.006","i.008.007","i.008.008", "i.009.006","i.009.007","i.009.008","i.009.009", "i.010.006","i.010.007","i.010.008","i.010.009","i.010.010" ) one of the character vectors that matchs with the second 10 variable output is second.10<-c( "i.002.001", "i.003.001","i.003.002", "i.004.001","i.004.002","i.004.003", "i.005.001","i.005.002","i.005.003","i.005.004", "i.006.001","i.006.002","i.006.003","i.006.004","i.006.005", "i.007.001","i.007.002","i.007.003","i.007.004","i.007.005", "i.008.001","i.008.002","i.008.003","i.008.004","i.008.005", "i.009.001","i.009.002","i.009.003","i.009.004","i.009.005", "i.010.001","i.010.002","i.010.003","i.010.004","i.010.005", "i.007.006", "i.008.006","i.008.007", "i.009.006","i.009.007","i.009.008", "i.010.006","i.010.007","i.010.008","i.010.009" ) and then assign the character vector to the numeric vector by names<-first.10 first.10 = numeric.vector combined.one <- cbind(names,first.10) container <- diag(10) for (i in 1:(10*10)) { k <- as.numeric(substr(combined.one[i,1],7,9)) l <- as.numeric(substr(combined.one [i,1],3,5)) val <- as.numeric(combined.one [i,2]) container [k,l] <- val } container <- t(container ) Is there any other neat way to do this? Any help would be appreciated TM ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html