DescTools (version 0.99.37)

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

a table

See Also

read.table, as.table, as.matrix

Examples

# NOT RUN {
txt <- "
    Democrat, Independent, Republican
  M, 762, 327, 468
  F, 484, 239, 477"

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