Don't give up on read.table() just yet:
> read.table("clipboard", colClasses=c("character",
"NULL", "NULL"),
fill=TRUE)
V1
1 i1-apple
2 i2-banana
3 i3-strawberry
Andy
> From: Spencer Graves
>
> Uwe and Andy's solutions are great for many
> applications but won't
> work if not all rows have the same numbers of fields. Consider for
> example the following modification of Lee's example:
>
> i1-apple 10$ New_York
> i2-banana
> i3-strawberry 7$ Japan
>
> If I copy this to "clipboard" and run Andy's code, I
get the
> following:
>
> > read.table("clipboard", colClasses=c("character",
"NULL", "NULL"))
> Error in scan(file = file, what = what, sep = sep, quote =
> quote, dec =
> dec, :
> line 2 did not have 3 elements
>
> We can get around this using "scan", then splitting
> things apart
> similar to the way Uwe described:
>
> > dat <-
> + scan("clipboard", character(0), sep="\n")
> Read 3 items
> > dash <- regexpr("-", dat)
> > dat2 <- substring(dat, pmax(0, dash)+1)
> >
> > blank <- regexpr(" ", dat2)
> > if(any(blank<0))
> + blank[blank<0] <- nchar(dat2[blank<0])
> > substring(dat2, 1, blank)
> [1] "apple " "banana" "strawberry "
>
> hope this helps. spencer graves
>
> Uwe Ligges wrote:
>
> > Liaw, Andy wrote:
> >
> >> Using R-2.0.0 on WinXPPro, cut-and-pasting the data you have:
> >>
> >>
> >>> read.table("clipboard",
colClasses=c("character", "NULL", "NULL"))
> >>
> >>
> >> V1
> >> 1 i1-apple
> >> 2 i2-banana
> >> 3 i3-strawberry
> >
> >
> >
> > ... and if only the words after "-" are of interest, the
> statement can
> > be followed by
> >
> > sapply(strsplit(...., "-"), "[", 2)
> >
> >
> > Uwe Ligges
> >
> >
> >
> >> HTH,
> >> Andy
> >>
> >>
> >>> From: j lee
> >>>
> >>> Hello All,
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to read first words in lines into a new file.
> >>> If I have a data file the following, how can I get the
> >>> first words: apple, banana, strawberry?
> >>>
> >>> i1-apple 10$ New_York
> >>> i2-banana 5$ London
> >>> i3-strawberry 7$ Japan
> >>>
> >>> Is there any similar question already posted to the
> >>> list? I am a bit new to R, having a few months of
> >>> experience now.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>>
> >>> John
> >>>
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