Thank Dennis!!!.....it works.... regards
Gaurav Kumar www.gauravkumar.org PhD Student, Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie , Sydney, Australia. MS (Computational Biology), NCBS-TIFR, Bangalore, India. --- On Wed, 20/1/10, Dennis Murphy <djmu...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Dennis Murphy <djmu...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [R] R help for read.table() To: gau...@gauravkumar.org Cc: r-help@r-project.org Date: Wednesday, 20 January, 2010, 4:43 PM R does vectorized arithmetic. Your loop was superfluous. Observe: > x <- read.table(textConnection(" + S:C 2.011085038928 + S:A 21.496800549900762 + S:J 0.183181039138149 + P:E 9.641984304606304")) > x V1 V2 1 S:C 2.0110850 2 S:A 21.4968005 3 S:J 0.1831810 4 P:E 9.6419843 > transform(x, pval = 2 * (1 - pnorm(abs(V2)))) V1 V2 pval 1 S:C 2.0110850 0.04431648 2 S:A 21.4968005 0.00000000 3 S:J 0.1831810 0.85465597 4 P:E 9.6419843 0.00000000 HTH, Dennis On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Gaurav Kumar <gau...@gauravkumar.org> wrote: 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]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.