gsource {Zelig}R Documentation

Read Data As a Space-Delimited Table

Description

The gsource function allows you to read a space delimited table as a data frame. Unlike scan, you may use gsource in a sourceed file, and unlike read.table, you may use gsource to include a small (or large) data set in a file that also contains other commands.

Usage

gsource(var.names = NULL, variables)

Arguments

var.names An optional vector of character strings representing the column names. By default, var.names = NULL.
variables A single character string representing the data. You may use \ or \n to indicate new lines.

Value

The output from gsource is a data frame, which you may save to an object in your workspace.

Author(s)

Olivia Lau <olau@fas.harvard.edu>

See Also

read.table, scan

Examples

## Not run: 
data <- gsource(variables =  "\
                 1 2 3 4 5    \
                 6 7 8 9 10   \
                 3 4 5 1 3    \
                 6 7 8 1 9    ")

data <- gsource(var.names = "Vote Age Party", variables = "\
                             0    23 Democrat             \
                             0    27 Democrat             \
                             1    45 Republican           \
                             1    65 Democrat             ")
## End(Not run)
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