I've a table containing two columns seperated by space, as shown below. S:C 2.011085038928 S:A 21.496800549900762 S:J 0.183181039138149 P:E 9.641984304606304 I'm reading this table inside a loop but unable to access the first column as file[i,1]. file <- read.table("data.txt",header=FALSE) for ( i in 1:nrow(file)) { cat(file[i,1],":") pvalue <- 2*(1-pnorm(abs(file[i,2]))) cat(pvalue,"\n") } can anyone help me how to read the first column. regards Gaurav Kumar www.gauravkumar.org PhD Student, Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie , Sydney, Australia. MS (Computational Biology), NCBS-TIFR, Bangalore, India. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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