>>>>> "Gregor" == Gregor Gorjanc <gregor.gorjanc@(protected)>
>>>>>   on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:33:21 +0100 writes:

  Gregor> 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

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

Yes, but I think it shows read.fwf() should not be extended for
even more special cases:

In my (and probably R-core's) view, read.fwf() should only have
to be used for ``legacy data files'' (those times when people used *no*
separators in order to save disk space), since nowadays, such
data files should "automatically" have correct separators.

--> Fix the "file producing process" rather than make read.fwf()
unnecessarily more complicated.

Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich

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