title: Raw data: reading attributes with varied number of spaces in R
body: <p>I am trying to read in the Baylor dataset but I can't use read.csv since the spaces are not consistent. </p>
  
  <p>I do have the column numbers so I was thinking read.fwf would help fix my issue but that means I have to review more than 100 attributes and check the line widths. </p>
  
  <p>Is there an easier way to read the data?</p>
  
  <pre><code>baylor &lt;- read.csv('C:/Users/Documents/baylor-religion-survey-data-2007.txt', header=F)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><a href="http://facweb.cdm.depaul.edu/sjost/csc433/projects/baylor-religion-survey-column-numbers.txt" rel="nofollow">Column Numbers</a>
  <a href="http://facweb.cdm.depaul.edu/sjost/csc433/projects/baylor-religion-survey-data-2007.txt" rel="nofollow">Baylor Religion 2007 Survey Data</a></p>