On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:49:29PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, the data is generated by a perl script, and I could just > configure the perl script so that there is one file per data table, > but I though I'd probably must more efficent to have all records in a > single file rather than reading a thousands of small files ... .
I guess I would make it a singe file and put the IDs in their own column: ID x y 123 89.1791 1.1024 123 90.5735 1.1024 123 92.5666 1.1024 123 95.0725 1.1024 123 101.2070 1.1024 321 60.1601 1.1024 321 64.8023 1.1024 321 70.0593 2.1502 ... cu Philipp -- Dr. Philipp Pagel Tel. +49-8161-71 2131 Dept. of Genome Oriented Bioinformatics Fax. +49-8161-71 2186 Technical University of Munich Science Center Weihenstephan 85350 Freising, Germany and Institute for Bioinformatics / MIPS Tel. +49-89-3187 3675 GSF - National Research Center Fax. +49-89-3187 3585 for Environment and Health Ingolstädter Landstrasse 1 85764 Neuherberg, Germany http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html