[R] converting an ASCII file to a matrix

[Michael Graber]

Dear R-WinEdit users,

I got a simple question, but somehow I cannot find the answer, although 
I have
tried a lot!
I got an ASCII-file and I want to import it into R, so that every
character is defined by [i;j].
The rows are not of the same length.

the file looks like the following shortened abstract example:

name: xxxxx xxxx
age: 9.9.99
record number: 999
title: xxxxx xxxx xxx
keywords: xxx xx

"white space"

name: yyyy yyyyyyyyyyyy
age: 8.8.88
record number: 8
title: yyyy yy yyyy
keywords: yyyyyyyyyyy yyyyyyyy yyy

"white space"
I would be very grateful for your help!

Michael Graber
michael.graber at mail.uni-wuerzburg.de