[R] reading lisp file in R

[Ranjan Maitra]

Thanks! I guess one way to do it in R would be to read the lines and then do character parsing (string-matching and other operations) to save as a data frame and forget about the lines at the end perhaps? I am not sure how general such a scheme would be: that is also something I would like to show my students, because the fact is that to be useful it should be general or easily modified for use other datasets.

Best wishes,
Ranjan

On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 07:02:29 +0200 Eric Berger <ericjberger at gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems the file contains records, with each record having 18 fields.
> I would use awk (standard unix tool), creating an awk script to process the
> file
> into a new file with one line for each record, each line with 18 fields,
> say comma-separated.
> The csv file can then be easily read into R via the function read.csv.
> 
> HTH,
> Eric
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 6:22 AM, Ranjan Maitra <maitra at email.com> wrote:
> 
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > Is there a way to read data files written in lisp into R?
> >
> > Here is the file: https://archive.ics.uci.edu/
> > ml/machine-learning-databases/university/university.data
> >
> > I would like to read it into R. Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks very much in advance for pointers on this and best wishes,
> > Ranjan
> >
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