[R] read txt file - date - no space

[Jeff Newmiller]

1) No. 

2) The read.csv function is a s special case use of the more general read.table function that can handle any simple field separator.

3) Read the data in as character (I recommend using the stringsAsFactors=FALSE argument to read.table) and convert to an appropriate type from that form. e.g. [1]

[1] https://www.r-bloggers.com/using-dates-and-times-in-r/


On July 30, 2018 7:29:05 AM PDT, Diego Avesani <diego.avesani using gmail.com> wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I am dealing with the reading of a *.txt file.
>The txt file the following shape:
>
>103001930 103001580 103001530
>1998-10-01 00:00:00 0.6 0 0
>1998-10-01 01:00:00 0.2 0.2 0.2
>1998-10-01 02:00:00 0.6 0.2 0.4
>1998-10-01 03:00:00 0 0 0.6
>1998-10-01 04:00:00 0 0 0
>1998-10-01 05:00:00 0 0 0
>1998-10-01 06:00:00 0 0 0
>1998-10-01 07:00:00 0.2 0 0
>
>If it is possible I have a coupe of questions, which will sound stupid
>but
>they are important to me in order to understand ho R deal with file or
>date.
>
>1) Do I have to convert it to a *csv file?
>2) Can a deal with space and not ","
>3) How can I read date?
>
>thanks a lot to all of you,
>Thanks
>
>
>Diego
>
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