[R] Getting codebook data into R

[Peter Alspach]

Tena koe

?read.fwf

HTH ....

Peter Alspach

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From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of barny
Sent: Friday, 10 February 2012 9:52 a.m.
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] Getting codebook data into R

I've been trying to get some data from the National Survey for Family Growth
into R - however, the data is in a .dat file and the data I need doesn't
have any spaces or commas separating fields - rather you have to look into
the codebook and what number of digits along the line the data you need is. 
The data I want are the following, where 1,12,int means that the data I'm
interested starts in column 1 and finishes in column 12 and is an integer. 

            ('caseid', 1, 12, int),
             ('nbrnaliv', 22, 22, int),
            ('babysex', 56, 56, int),
            ('birthwgt_lb', 57, 58, int),
            ('birthwgt_oz', 59, 60, int),
            ('prglength', 275, 276, int),
            ('outcome', 277, 277, int),
            ('birthord', 278, 279, int),
            ('agepreg', 284, 287, int),
            ('finalwgt', 423, 440, float)

How can I do this using R? I've written a python programme which basically
does it but it'd be nicer if I could skip the Python bit and just do it
using R. Cheers for any help. 
            

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