What is wrong with the "extra step"? Is it taking too much time (you did not specify that), is it taking too much memory? How many times are you going to be doing it? If not many, then may be it is OK. You have to quantify what you are asking for. It may take longer to send a message to R-Help and get a response than to just read the file in and process it.
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Steve Lianoglou > <mailinglist.honey...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> read.delim gives me a data.frame. Is there a function that can return >>> the result in a matrix rather than data.frame? >> >> m <- as.matrix(read.delim(..)) > > I knew this approach. But this takes an extra step. Is there a command > that read a file directly into a matrix? > > Regards, > Peng > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.
