Daniel Nordlund wrote:
> Gregor,
>
> According to the help for read.fwf, sep needs to be set to a value that occurs only in the header record. I changed the spaces to commas in the header record of your example and used the following syntax and was able to read the file just fine.
>
> new.data<-read.fwf(file="test.txt", widths=c(3, 4, 10, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 11, 19),
>  header=TRUE, sep=',')
>
> Hope this is helpful,
>
> Dan

Thanks Dan! But I have to modfy file first. Not that much of work but still.

Regards, Gregor

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