TextToTable: Converts String To a Table
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TextToTable

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Converts String To a Table

Description

Try to convert a string to a table, by first creating a data frame using read.table. This can then be coerced to a matrix first, and subsequently to a table. The names of the dimensions can be specified.

Usage

TextToTable(x, dimnames = NULL, check.names = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

`x`	the string to be interpreted as table.
`dimnames`	the names of the dimensions.
`check.names`	passed on to `read.table` and determines, if invalid column names should be adapted to valid ones. The default here is changed to `FALSE`.
`...`	the dots will be passed to the function `read.table` and can be used for example to specify `header`, `sep` and `row.names` arguments.

Value

a table

Author(s)

Andri Signorell <andri@signorell.net>

Examples

txt <- "
    Democrat, Independent, Republican
  M, 762, 327, 468
  F, 484, 239, 477"

(tab <- TextToTable(txt, header=TRUE, sep=",", dimnames=c("gender", "party")))

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