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TextToTable: 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, ...)

Arguments

x
the string to be interpreted as table.

dimnames
the names of the dimensions.

...
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

See Also

read.table, as.table, as.matrix

Examples

Run this code
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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