Re: [R] Getting codebook data into R

2012-02-13 Thread rmailbox
) (Not tested. Adapted from working code.) memisc documentation has more info about doing this and how it works. eRic - Original message - From: barny garyb.dav...@btinternet.com To: r-help@r-project.org Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:04:16 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [R] Getting codebook data

Re: [R] Getting codebook data into R

2012-02-13 Thread Chris Stubben
, 440, float) How can I do this using R? I've written a python programme which basically does it but it'd be nicer if I could skip the Python bit and just do it using R. Cheers for any help. Dan -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Getting-codebook-data

Re: [R] Getting codebook data into R

2012-02-11 Thread barny
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Re: [R] Getting codebook data into R

2012-02-11 Thread Daniel Nordlund
-Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of barny Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 10:04 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Getting codebook data into R Hi Eric - after seeing the difficulty of inputting

[R] Getting codebook data into R

2012-02-09 Thread barny
a python programme which basically does it but it'd be nicer if I could skip the Python bit and just do it using R. Cheers for any help. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Getting-codebook-data-into-R-tp4374331p4374331.html Sent from the R help mailing list

[R] Getting codebook data into R

2012-02-09 Thread barny
a python programme which basically does it but it'd be nicer if I could skip the Python bit and just do it using R. Cheers for any help. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Getting-codebook-data-into-R-tp4374329p4374329.html Sent from the R help mailing list

[R] Getting codebook data into R

2012-02-09 Thread barny
a python programme which basically does it but it'd be nicer if I could skip the Python bit and just do it using R. Cheers for any help. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Getting-codebook-data-into-R-tp4374330p4374330.html Sent from the R help mailing list

Re: [R] Getting codebook data into R

2012-02-09 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
it using R. Cheers for any help. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Getting-codebook-data-into-R-tp4374330p4374330.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https

Re: [R] Getting codebook data into R

2012-02-09 Thread Peter Alspach
Tena koe ?read.fwf HTH Peter Alspach -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of barny Sent: Friday, 10 February 2012 9:52 a.m. To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Getting codebook data into R I've been trying to get

Re: [R] Getting codebook data into R

2012-02-09 Thread Douglas Bates
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:51 PM, barny garyb.dav...@btinternet.com wrote: I've been trying to get some data from the National Survey for Family Growth into R - however, the data is in a .dat file and the data I need doesn't have any spaces or commas separating fields - rather you have to look

Re: [R] Getting codebook data into R

2012-02-09 Thread peter dalgaard
On Feb 9, 2012, at 22:47 , Douglas Bates wrote: It's amazing how these old habits of storing data like this persist. The reason for fixed-format records was that you couldn't read free format in a Fortran program in a standard way before Fortran-77. And 35 years afterwards we are still

Re: [R] Getting codebook data into R

2012-02-09 Thread David Winsemius
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Re: [R] Getting codebook data into R

2012-02-09 Thread rmailbox
, but there are several choices here. eRic - Original message - From: David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net To: barny garyb.dav...@btinternet.com Cc: r-help@r-project.org Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 17:50:39 -0500 Subject: Re: [R] Getting codebook data into R On Feb 9, 2012, at 3:51 PM, barny wrote

Re: [R] Getting codebook data into R

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Nordlund
-Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of barny Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 12:52 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Getting codebook data into R I've been trying to get some data from the National Survey