[R] read.fwf and header

[Gregor Gorjanc]

Greg Snow wrote:
> How about using a connection and reading the header separate from the
> data, like this:
> 
> tmp1 <- file('c:/temp/tmp.dat')
> open(tmp1)
> 
> my.names <- scan(tmp1, nlines=1, what='')
> 
> 
> new.data<-read.fwf(file=tmp1, widths=c(3, 4, 10, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 11, 19),
> header=FALSE)
> 
> names(new.data) <- my.names
> 
> close(tmp1)

Yes, also possible as has been shown in previous posts.

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    Gregor Gorjanc
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