Rashmi Mathur wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to read in a file of data using read.table(), in which the
> data in one column is vectors.
>
> The format of the file is as follows -
>
>
> FirstName LastName no.Children children.ages
> Sally James 3 c(3,5,7)
> John Smith 2 c(13,16)
> Betsy Harold 6 c(2,5,8,12,15,17)
>
>
> How do I specify that the children.ages column contains vector data, and
> that each vector is of a different length when reading in this text
> file?
You might want to read the column as character, parse it afterwards, and
convert your data structure into a list which seems more appropriate to
represent the data.
Uwe Ligges
> Thanks in advance,
> Rashmi
>
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