[R] how to read in a txt file with some blanks

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Thu Nov 29 01:42:52 CET 2007


If the data is fixed field, then read.fwf.  Else blanks are normally
allowed delimiters.  How do you want to interprete blanks?  There are
number of ways, none of which you have specified.

On Nov 28, 2007 6:46 PM, affy snp <affysnp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
> Is there a way to read in a txt file with some blanks? The ideal way could
> be to replace blanks with NAs.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Allen
>
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