Not familiar w/ Stata, but these functions read data files and should
provide the functionality you wish.
?read.fwf
?read.table
?scan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anupam Tyagi" <AnupTyagi@(protected)>
To: <r-help@(protected)>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 8:26 AM
Subject: [R] Reading fixed column format


> How can I read fixed column data (without a delimiter) from a large ASCII
> file
> directly into R? I want to read non-contiguous variables. I am trying to
> avoid
> reading it first into a DBMS and then choosing the variables. I would
> perfer to
> format and label it along while reading if possible. Something like what
> STATA
> does with dictionary. Anupam.
>
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