DescTools (version 0.99.11)

FixToTab: Text to Table

Description

Convert a text to a table by using complete columns of spaces (or any other separator) as delimiting point.

Usage

FixToTab(txt, sep = " ", delim = "", trim = TRUE, header = TRUE)txt{the text to be partitioned. Works best, if txt is  a matrix.}
  sep{the separator to use. Will frequently be " ".}
  delim{the new delimiter to insert. (default tab)}
  trim{logical. Should the separated text be trimmed from whitespace? Defaults to TRUE.}
  header{logical. Should the first line be interpreted as header?}
Only a complete appearance of the separator character in the same position over all rows will 
be accepted as column delimiter.
a matrix of the separated text.
[object Object],[object Object]
StrChop

# let's get some tabbed text
txt <- matrix(capture.output(Titanic[,,2,1]))
FixToTab(txt[-1,])manip