fwf2csv: Creates a CSV Representation of Data Accoding to Stacks of...
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Description Usage Arguments Value Note Author(s) References Examples

Uses awk to convert a fixed-width file to a CSV based on stacks of whitespace.

1	fwf2csv(infile, toDF = FALSE, ...)

`infile`	The input file. Can also be `"clipboard"` to read directly from the clipboard.
`toDF`	Logical. Should the file be read in while we are at it? Defaults to `FALSE`.
`...`	Other arguments to be passed to `read.table`.

A vector or a data.frame, depending on the value in toDF.

Only tested on Linux.

Ananda Mahto and Ed Morton.

http://stackoverflow.com/q/30868600/1270695

myfile <- tempfile(fileext = ".txt")
Lines <- c("aaa  b b ccc      345", "ddd  fgt f u      3456", "e r  der der      5 674")
cat(Lines, sep = "\n")
cat(Lines, sep = "\n", file = myfile)
fwf2csv(myfile)
fwf2csv(myfile, TRUE, header = FALSE)