Thomas Lumley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
> If the file is large enough that you don't want to read the whole > thing at once you can read it in chunks using readLines(). If all the > lines are the same length you can find the size of the file and divide > by the length of a line. > > Also, you don't say what OS you are on. If it isn't Windows the > easiest thing would be to use wc. Part of the reason I got into Linux was because I needed to do (little?) things that I found tricky to do in Windows and bit-by-bit I accumulated various *nix tools that had been ported to DOS/Windows, such as these found here: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ So if your OS is Windows you could stick with it and still use wc (assuming that it works in the same way as under Linux---I haven't tested the version at this location). Dave -- David Whiting University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
