R help - Jan 2004 - loading matrix from file

What is the best way to load a matrix from a text file if it's already
in a matrix form?  I'd like the parser function to automagically
recognize that line separators indicate a new row.  The technique I've
been using is the following:

output <- matrix(scan(inputFile), byrow=T, ncol=2)

However, I don't want to have to specify ncol=2.  

Thanks!

John

What's wrong with read.table? It's the principal function for reading
data into R.
-Andy

You could try:

   as.matrix( read.table( filename ) )


Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 14:54:30 -0500 
From: John Hayes <jahaye at wm.edu>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> 
Subject: [R] loading matrix from file 

 
 
What is the best way to load a matrix from a text file if it's already
in a matrix form? I'd like the parser function to automagically
recognize that line separators indicate a new row. The technique I've
been using is the following:

output <- matrix(scan(inputFile), byrow=T, ncol=2)

However, I don't want to have to specify ncol=2. 

Thanks!

John