[Using 2.0.1 under Windows XP]
There are a few pages on the internet that list equivalents of
"thank you" in many languages. I downloaded one from a Google search
and I thought that it would be interesting and a good R exercise to
sort the file into the order of the expressions, rather than the languages.
I tidied up the web page and got it into the format that it was nearly
in: Language Name in columns 1-43, the expression in the remaining
columns.
Then I read it in:
> thanks <- read.fwf("C:\\Files\\Reading\\thankyou.txt",
c(43,37))
> thanks[1:4,]
V1 V2
1 Abenaki (Maine USA, Montreal Canada) Wliwni ni
2 Abenaki (Maine USA, Montreal Canada) Wliwni
3 Abenaki (Maine USA, Montreal Canada) Oliwni
4 Ach?? (Baja Verapaz Guatemala) Mantiox chawe
> dim(thanks)
[1] 1254 2
Now I tried sorting the frame into the order of the second column:
tord <- order(thanks$V2)
sink("C:\\Files\\Reading\\thanks.txt")
thanks[tord[1:74],]
sink()
This gives more or less the expected output, the file thanks.txt beginning
V1
V2
145 Cahuila (United States) '\301cha-ma
862 Paipai (Mexico, USA)
'Ara'ya:ikm
863 Paipai (Mexico, USA)
'Ara'yai:km
864 Paipai (Mexico, USA)
'Ara'ye:km
311 Eyak (Alaska)
'Awa'ahdah
[you may get a bit of wrapping there!]
However I don't really want just 74 lines, I would like the whole file. But
if I get rid of the [1:74] or replace 74 with any larger number I get
output
like this, with no second column:
V1
145 Cahuila (United States)
862 Paipai (Mexico, USA)
863 Paipai (Mexico, USA)
864 Paipai (Mexico, USA)
311 Eyak (Alaska)
Does anyone know what is going on?
Tusen tak in advance, in fact 1254 tak in advance!
Murray Jorgensen
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Murray Jorgensen wrote:> [Using 2.0.1 under Windows XP] > There are a few pages on the internet that list equivalents of > "thank you" in many languages. I downloaded one from a Google search > and I thought that it would be interesting and a good R exercise to > sort the file into the order of the expressions, rather than the languages. > > I tidied up the web page and got it into the format that it was nearly > in: Language Name in columns 1-43, the expression in the remaining > columns. > > Then I read it in: > > > thanks <- read.fwf("C:\\Files\\Reading\\thankyou.txt", c(43,37)) > > thanks[1:4,] > V1 V2 > 1 Abenaki (Maine USA, Montreal Canada) Wliwni ni > 2 Abenaki (Maine USA, Montreal Canada) Wliwni > 3 Abenaki (Maine USA, Montreal Canada) Oliwni > 4 Ach?? (Baja Verapaz Guatemala) Mantiox chawe > > > dim(thanks) > [1] 1254 2 > > Now I tried sorting the frame into the order of the second column: > > tord <- order(thanks$V2) > sink("C:\\Files\\Reading\\thanks.txt") > thanks[tord[1:74],] > sink() > > This gives more or less the expected output, the file thanks.txt beginning > > V1 > V2 > 145 Cahuila (United States) '\301cha-ma > 862 Paipai (Mexico, USA) 'Ara'ya:ikm > 863 Paipai (Mexico, USA) 'Ara'yai:km > 864 Paipai (Mexico, USA) 'Ara'ye:km > 311 Eyak (Alaska) 'Awa'ahdah > > [you may get a bit of wrapping there!] > > However I don't really want just 74 lines, I would like the whole file. But > if I get rid of the [1:74] or replace 74 with any larger number I get > output > like this, with no second column: > > V1 > 145 Cahuila (United States) > 862 Paipai (Mexico, USA) > 863 Paipai (Mexico, USA) > 864 Paipai (Mexico, USA) > 311 Eyak (Alaska)I guess there is just too much space or some special characters in your variables that cause problems when printing ... Hence you have to "debug" your data yourself. Uwe Ligges> Does anyone know what is going on? > Tusen tak in advance, in fact 1254 tak in advance! > > Murray Jorgensen
Murray Jorgensen wrote:> > thanks <- read.fwf("C:\\Files\\Reading\\thankyou.txt", c(43,37))[CCing R-help again: I have looked at Murray Jorgensen's data in the meantime] tord <- order(thanks$V2) sink("C:\\thanks.txt") thanks[tord,] sink() Works for me with R-2.1.1. --> Please upgrade your version of R and try again. Uwe Ligges