: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:46 AM
To: Tobin, Jared
Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] Partially reading a file (particularly)
Try this:
con <- pipe("findstr /b 5 myfile.dat")
open(con, "r")
DF <- read.fwf(con, widt
ceans
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> From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 10:51 PM
> To: Charles C. Berry
> Cc: Tobin, Jared; r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Pa
From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 10:51 PM
To: Charles C. Berry
Cc: Tobin, Jared; r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] Partially reading a file (particularly)
On 5/29/07, Charles C. Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On windows XP we can
On 5/29/07, Charles C. Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2007, Tobin, Jared wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to figure out if there exists some R command that allows one
> > to be
> > particularly selective when reading a file. I'm dealing with large
> > fixed-width data
> >
On Tue, 29 May 2007, Tobin, Jared wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to figure out if there exists some R command that allows one
> to be
> particularly selective when reading a file. I'm dealing with large
> fixed-width data
> sets that look like
>
> 539001..
> 639001..
> 639001..
> ...
> 539002..
Hello,
I am trying to figure out if there exists some R command that allows one
to be
particularly selective when reading a file. I'm dealing with large
fixed-width data
sets that look like
539001..
639001..
639001..
...
539002..
639002..
...
Presently, I am using read.fwf to read an entire fi
