On Aug 15, 2012, at 4:07 PM, David Winsemius wrote:


On Aug 15, 2012, at 2:04 PM, li li wrote:

Dear all,
 I want to import just part of an excel data file into R.
 I would like to have the data imported without
rownames or colume names.
I used read.delim("clipboard", header=F).  Somehow even though
I added the argument "header=F", I still have the row names V1, V2, ...,
Does anyone know how to fix this?
 Thanks very much in advance.

You could use readLines() or you could use scan().

Perhaps:

input <- scan(file="clipboard", what="numeric")

If you know the number of columns, say 10, it could be:

inpmat <- matrix( scan(file="clipboard", what="numeric"), ncol=10)

Or perhaps:

inpmat <- matrix( scan(file="clipboard", what=double() , ncol=10)

Using the first version actually gives you character values, since "numeric" is of of type character. Different convention than most other reading functions.

--
David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA

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