[R] creating a vector from a file

Matt Shotwell
Tue, 31 May 2011 14:12:21 -0000

On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 15:36 +0200, heimat los wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am new to R and my question should be trivial. I need to create a word
> cloud from a txt file containing the words and their occurrence number. For
> that purposes I am using the snippets package [1].
> As it can be seen at the bottom of the link, first I have to create a
vector
> (is that right that words is a vector?) like bellow.
>
> > words <- c(apple=10, pie=14, orange=5, fruit=4)
>
> My problem is to do the same thing but create the vector from a file which
> would contain words and their occurence number. I would be very happy if
you
> could give me some hints.

How is the file formatted? Can you provide a small example?

> Moreover, to understand the format of the file to be inserted I write the
> vector words to a file.
>
> > write(words, file="words.txt")
>
> However, the file words.txt contains only the values but not the
> names(apple, pie etc.).
>
> $ cat words.txt
> 10 14 5 4
>
> It seems that I have to understand more about the data types in R.
>
> Thanks.
> PH
>
> http://www.rforge.net/doc/packages/snippets/cloud.html
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