On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 03:27:31PM -0500, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > Use file.file()$size to find out how large the file is > and skip files larger than some cutoff.
You presumably meant file.info()$size Dirk > > On Jan 9, 2008 2:01 PM, Derek Stephen Elmerick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello – > > > > I am trying to write code that will read in multiple datasets; > > however, I would like to skip any dataset where the read-in process > > takes longer than some fixed cutoff. A generic version of the function > > is the following: > > > > for(k in 1:number.of.datasets) > > { > > X[k]=read.table(…) > > } > > > > The issue is that I cannot find a way to embed logic that will abort > > the read-in process of a specific dataset without manual intervention. > > I scanned the help manual and other postings, but no luck based on my > > search. Any thoughts? > > > > Thanks, > > Derek > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel