[R] read a file of text with read.table

[Frede Aakmann Tøgersen]

Hi Carol

I cannot reproduce what you're seeing.

> tmp <- read.table(text = "absfjdslf
+ jfdldskjff
+ jfsldfjslk")

> str(tmp)
'data.frame':	3 obs. of  1 variable:
 $ V1: Factor w/ 3 levels "absfjdslf","jfdldskjff",..: 1 2 3

> tmp <- read.table(text = "absfjdslf
+ jfdldskjff
+ jfsldfjslk",
+ colClasses = "character")

> str(tmp)
'data.frame':	3 obs. of  1 variable:
 $ V1: chr  "absfjdslf" "jfdldskjff" "jfsldfjslk"

Yours sincerely / Med venlig hilsen


Frede Aakmann Tøgersen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
> On Behalf Of carol white
> Sent: 26. juni 2014 09:33
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] read a file of text with read.table
> 
> It might be a primitive question but I have a file of text and there is no
> separator between character on each line and the strings on each line have
> the same length. The format is like the following
> 
> absfjdslf
> jfdldskjff
> jfsldfjslk
> 
> When I read the file with read.table("myfile",colClasses = "character"),
> instead of putting the strings in a table of number of rows x length of string,
> read.table saves the file in a table of number of rows x 1 and each element
> seems to be a factor. Why does read.table not account for  colClasses =
> "character"?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Carol
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