as far as I've know, I don't think you can do so with read.table. But I am also thinking about RODBC and wondering if you could assign a DSN to your .csv file and then use sql to fetch the subset.
On 3/11/07, gnv shqp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi R-experts, > > I have data from four conditions of an experiment. I tried to create four > subsets of the data with read.table, for example, > read.table("Experiment.csv",subset=(condition=="1")) > . I found a similar post in the archive, but the answer to that post was > no. Any new ideas about reading subsets of data with read.table? > > Thanks! > > Feng > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- WenSui Liu A lousy statistician who happens to know a little programming (http://spaces.msn.com/statcompute/blog) ______________________________________________ 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.