Well I haven't seen any replies to this, so I have had a stab at the
problem of getting the data into a data frame.
The approach I took was to break up the data into a list, and then fill in
a matrix, row by row, "filling down" a la spreadsheet style when necessary,
taking advantage of the orde
Here a brute force way based on the format of you input data. Basically it
reads a line in and then 'splits' it apart based on blanks and then
processes based on the 'tag'. Information is stored in some global data and
the '.result' is converted into a dataframe that you can work with.
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Dear List,
Im new to R - making a transition from SAS. I have a space delimited file
with the following structure. Each line in the datafile is identified by
the first letter.
A = Inventory (Inventory)
X = Stratum (Stratum_no Total Ye=year established)
P = Plot (Plot_no age slope= species)
T =
