On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Georg Otto wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a csv file where the number of filled columns varies in the > different rows: > > Sun 5-Feb-06,15,,,01:30:00,0:06:00, > Mon 6-Feb-06,,,,,, > Tue 7-Feb-06,7,,,00:41:00,0:05:51, > Wed 8-Feb-06,,,,,, > > I would like to use read.table (or whatever is appropriate) to read in > only those rows that have two or more columns filled. Any hint will be > appreciated.
See ?read.table is the main hint. Use read.table(fill=TRUE) and post-process, e.g. by A <- A[rowSums(!is.na(A)) > 2), ] -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.