R: Converts String To a Table

TextToTable {DescTools} | R Documentation

## 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

### Author(s)

Andri Signorell <andri@signorell.net>

### See Also

`read.table`, `as.table`, `as.matrix`

### 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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