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rnorouzian
rnorouzian

Reputation: 7517

reading text table into R

I know if I copy the content of the object block and paste it onto a text editor (e.g., notepad), then I can read the block.txt file as a table in R like so: read.table('block.txt', header = TRUE).

But is there a way to directly (without first creating a block.txt file) read the block itself in R?

block <- "Item1 Item2 Item3 
             22    52    16 
             42    33    24 
             44     8    19 
             52    47    18 
             45    43    34 
             37    32    39"

Upvotes: 0

Views: 52

Answers (2)

akrun
akrun

Reputation: 887951

We can use fread

library(data.table)
fread(block)
#   Item1 Item2 Item3
#1:    22    52    16
#2:    42    33    24
#3:    44     8    19
#4:    52    47    18
#5:    45    43    34
#6:    37    32    39

Upvotes: 0

Ronak Shah
Ronak Shah

Reputation: 389325

You can specify block as text argument of read.table :

read.table(text = block, header = TRUE)

#  Item1 Item2 Item3
#1    22    52    16
#2    42    33    24
#3    44     8    19
#4    52    47    18
#5    45    43    34
#6    37    32    39

Upvotes: 1

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