similar to: Possible bug in read.fwf (PR#7350)

Hi everyone, my apologies if I'm overlooking something obvious in the documentation. I'm relatively inexperienced with the (awesome) ff package. My goal is to use the read.table.ffdf() function to call the read.fwf() function and pass through the colClasses and comment.char arguments. The code below shows exactly what doesn't work for me. If the colClasses and comment.char

# Your mailer is set to "none" (default on Windows), # hence we cannot send the bug report directly from R. # Please copy the bug report (after finishing it) to # your favorite email program and send it to # # r-bugs@r-project.org # ###################################################### Is this intended behavior for the read.fwf(na.strings="-999")? I anticipated that

Hello, I am having a problem with write.fwf in Windows. I wrote a code to ingest a number of text files with weather data in them, process them, and then output a text file with two parts: 1) a set of column names, 2) the processed data table. I wrote and tested the program on my Mac, and it worked fine. However, on the windows machine, where I intend the work to be done, when I run the

Full_Name: Giovanni Bonafe' Version: 2.2.0 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (195.62.164.225) If the file "example.dat" is like this: aaa bbb ccc 3.4 1.2 5.6 4.6 10 32 667 343 1.7 With the older 1.9.1, as expected: > data<-read.fwf(file = "example.dat",widths=c(3,4,4),header=TRUE) > data aaa bbb ccc 1 3.4 1.2 5.6 2 4.6 10.0 32.0 3 667.0 343.0

Is there a way to handle the widths of values being written to a file using wrtite.fwf() ? For example, I used read.fwf(file, width.vector) to read a file. After making the necessary data manipulation, I want to write the data to a new file in the same width.vector format. Is there a way to specify this? Thanks in Advance Aparna [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Here is an example of the data I'm reading in using read.fwf: 5342.0 5450.4 0.9200 0.4506 34.7030 27.8411 37.1306 46.0034 0.0000 5438.0 5549.6 0.9300 0.4477-34.7280 27.8616 37.1506 46.0234 0.0000 And the commands I'm using to read it in: widths <- c(7,7,8,8,8,8,8,8,8) filedata <- read.fwf(fileopen, widths,sep="",dec=".") The problem is with

Running R 1.6.1 Linux Slackware 8.1 233MHZ AMD-K6 96MB RAM Using read.fwf, I tried to open a fixed-width file that of about 4 MB residing in the working directory, using the command below: dat<-read.fwf("sc01aai.dat", widths=fields$length) where fields$lengths is a vector of column widths, 28 to be exact. The data are a mix of character, text, and factor variables. R started

Full_Name: Emmanuel Paradis Version: 2.1.1 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (193.49.41.105) read.fwf(..., header = TRUE) does not work properly since: 1/ the original header is printed on the console and not in FILE; 2/ the different 'parts' of the header should be separated with tabs to work with the call to read.table. Here is a suggested fix for src/library/utils/R/read.fwf.R:

Hi there, I am having trouble subsetting a data frame by a conditional via one column (of many). I read the file into R through "read.fwf," where I specified column widths. Original data is .DAT. I then utilized "names" function to read in column headings. For one column, PRVDR_NUM, I wish to further amend the entire data set, but only have PRVDR_NUM == 050108. This is

Dear R-list This is just message to inform that the there is an issue with write.fwf in the gdata library (from version 2.5.0 on). It does not seem to accept further arguments to write.table like "eol" as the help file indicates as it stops when executing tmp <- lapply(x, format.info, ...). Great package though - I use it a lot except for this function :) See example below. >

Dear R users, I want to share my joy with you. Please see the following excellent introduction to R "Statistiques avec R " by Vincent Zoonekynd http://zoonek2.free.fr/UNIX/48_R/all.html In paticular, you can see a lot of fascinating graphics examples of R from which you can get many hints. Soryy if this is already well-known, but the CRAN search did not show nothing with the keyword

Hi! I have data (also in attached file) in the following form: num1 num2 num3 int1 fac1 fac2 cha1 cha2 Date POSIXt 1 1 f q 1900-01-01 1900-01-01 01:01:01 2 1.0 1316666.5 2 a g r z 1900-01-01 01:01:01 3 1.5 1188830.5 3 b h s y 1900-01-01 1900-01-01 01:01:01 4 2.0 1271846.3 4 c i t x 1900-01-01 1900-01-01 01:01:01 5 2.5 829737.4 d j u w 1900-01-01 6 3.0

Hi! I have data (also in attached file) in the following form: num1 num2 num3 int1 fac1 fac2 cha1 cha2 Date POSIXt 1 1 f q 1900-01-01 1900-01-01 01:01:01 2 1.0 1316666.5 2 a g r z 1900-01-01 01:01:01 3 1.5 1188830.5 3 b h s y 1900-01-01 1900-01-01 01:01:01 4 2.0 1271846.3 4 c i t x 1900-01-01 1900-01-01 01:01:01 5 2.5 829737.4 d j u w 1900-01-01 6 3.0

Dear List I have a fixed width file with variables of varying width. The help is pretty transparent for this feature, but I can't seem to figure out how I can make effective use of the package with my data. In my dataset, the first 80 columns are of width 1 followed by other variables with width larger than 1. I think the correct way to do this, by brute force, would be >

Hi, I'm trying to use read.fwf temp = read.fwf ("Raw data.txt", widths = c (11, 21, 10, rep (16, 6)) ,skip = 2, n = 2, stringsAsFactors = FALSE, strip.white = TRUE) but no matter what I do the strings are turned into factors. I believe it's the "n=2" parameter that causes the problem as it seems to work without this. Am I missing something? Thanks in advance,

I have a file in fwf. It is rather large, about 40,000 rows and 40 variables (columns). I only need about 10 variables form the data set for the analysis at hand. Unfortunately, these 10 variables are not contiguous in the file, for example, the first is position 1-8, the next position 25-27, then 40. Is there a way to read the selected varaibles that I need without reading in the entire data

Hello I am trying to use read.fwf, but receive an error: Warning: perl not found Error: "scan" can't open file I guess I need to obtain a perl for windows95 program. Where can I find a suitable port? R-Version: 0.64.1 OS : Win95 Thanks Sylvano sylvano at hotmail.com.au -------------------------------- Sylvano Lucchetti sylvano at gnomon.com.au http://www.gnomon.com.au/

Dear all, One of my friends asked me if it is possible to extract actual R function arguments literally (precisely, as strings). The reason is simple. He feels sometimes awkward to attach quotation marks :-). What he actually wants is to pass R command arguments to XLisp subroutines (He has been an enthusiastic XLisp user for a long time and still tends to use R as a wrapper to XLisp). Is it

Full_Name: Shigeru Mase Version: 2.0.1 OS: Linux (Debian) Submission from: (NULL) (222.149.162.192) help.search("Mem") shows there is an object "Memory-limits" in the base package. But commads "Memory-limits", or "Memory-limits()", causes an error message: Error: Object "Memory" not found. In addition, help(Memory-limits) displays the document

Dear R experts, I am posting this question on behalf of a Japanese R user who wants to know how to change the siginificant codes default. As you know, R's default significant codes are: Signif. codes: 0 `***' 0.001 `**' 0.01 `*' 0.05 `.' 0.1 ` ' 1 But he says that it is usual in economics to give codes such as `***' for 0.01, `**' for 0.05 and `*' for