similar to: Reading multi-line FWF data

Greetings, Summary: Has anyone else started a package (or have code) with the capability to write Vis5D-readable netCDF files containing irregularly-spaced data? I've recently put together what might be the beginnings of a (GPL'ed) R interface package to the Vis5D volumetric visualization program (http://vis5d.sourceforge.net). Vis5D is commonly used in the atmospheric science and

Greetings, Quick Summary: How does R function non-interactively? I can't print graphics to an X11 window. I set up what appears to be called a "noninteractive" R session using the Perl code at the end of this message. Everthing seems to work fine as written. I get a nice postscript file with my graphics. However, I would like to display X11 R-graphics for the Perl-script

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

Hello! In my opinion read.fwf()'s behaviour of header is not really useful. Say I have the following data: col1 col2 col3 123 123 123 a b 1234 12 1234 65.4 4.5 Now if I want to read this data into R I can not use read.table due to missing fields. read.table(file="test.txt") Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,

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: 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

Full_Name: Jeffrey Longmate Version: Version 1.4.0 Patched (2002-01-23) OS: Windows NT 4.0 Submission from: (NULL) (151.152.101.44) In read.fwf, ... args are passed to read.table, as stated in the documentation. However, passing comment.char in this manner is defeated by the call to scan that precedes the call to read.table. The problem is that scan has a default comment.char="#",

Full_Name: Jeffrey Longmate Version: Version 1.4.0 Patched (2002-01-23) OS: Windows NT 4.0 Submission from: (NULL) (151.152.101.44) In read.fwf, ... args are passed to read.table, as stated in the documentation. However, passing comment.char in this manner is defeated by the call to scan that precedes the call to read.table. The problem is that scan has a default comment.char="#",

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

# 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

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]]

It seems to me that the bug dealt with in bug reports 8226 and 8236 is still not fixed. I obtained the revised version of read.fwf from the latest R-patched and tried try.it <- read.fwf("junk",w,header=TRUE,as.is=TRUE) This gave the error Error in read.table(file = FILE, header = header, sep = sep, as.is = as.is, : more columns than column names Inspection of file

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

Greetings, I'm having trouble finding a simple way to calculate a weighted histogram where there may be zero raw counts in a given interval. Given equal-length vectors of data 'data' and weights 'w', and breaks (intervals) for the histogram, I calculate a weighted histogram as follows (see MASS's 'truehist' for an unweighted histogram): bin <- cut(data,

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,

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

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

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:

Dear R-list members, I have a data file with thousands of lines (cases), where each line contains the values of several variables. I would like to separate these lines in small groups, with each group followed by a blank line, to ease the visual inspection of the data in some situations. I am writing the output files with function write.fwf in library gdata, for correct column alignment. Below