CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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George
George

Reputation: 7327

Reading a Multiline String into a Table as Opposed to a Text File

I have /path/to/my/file.tstv:

Date         Pr   Data
2016-07-27  0.45  "Prior 1."
2016-07-28  0.55  "Prior 2."
2016-07-29  0.65  "Prior 3."

And, with my R code:

table_variable <- read.table("/path/to/my/file.tsv", header=TRUE)

Question: How do I instead read this data directly into table_variable as an inline multiline string?

Something like:

table_variable <- read.table("
Date         Pr   Data
2016-07-27  0.45  "Prior 1."
2016-07-28  0.55  "Prior 2."
2016-07-29  0.65  "Prior 3."
", header=TRUE)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 63

Answers (1)

G5W
G5W

Reputation: 37661

This does what you want. The main point is the text=. Notice that I changed your surrounding double quotes to single quotes.

table_variable <- read.table(text=
'Date         Pr   Data
2016-07-27  0.45  "Prior 1."
2016-07-28  0.55  "Prior 2."
2016-07-29  0.65  "Prior 3."
', header=TRUE)

Upvotes: 3

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