On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> Henrique Dallazuanna wrote:
>> Perhaps:
>>
>> data <- read.table(textConnection(rev(rev(readLines('data.txt'))[-(1:2)])))
>>
>
> Euurgh! Am I the only one whose sense of aesthetics is enraged by
> this? To get rid of the last two items you reverse the vector, remove
> the first two items, then reverse the vector again?
>
> One liners are fine for R Golf games, but in the real world, I'd get
> the length of the vector and cut directly off the end. Consider these:
>
> # reverse/trim/reverse:
> rev1 <- function(x,n=100,m=5){
> for(i in 1:n){
> y=rev(rev(x)[-(1:m)])
> }
> return(y)
> }
>
> # get length, trim
> rev2 <- function(x,n=100,m=5){
> for(i in 1:n){
> y=x[1:(length(x)-m)]
> }
> return(y)
> }
>
> > system.time(rev1(1:1000,10000,5))
> [1] 1.864 0.008 2.044 0.000 0.000
> > system.time(rev2(1:1000,10000,5))
> [1] 0.384 0.008 0.421 0.000 0.000
>
>
> Result: faster, more directly readable code.
And if you know the file size, just use
read.table('data.txt', nrows=<#file_rows>-2)
(and wc -l will tell you the number of rows more efficiently that using a
text connection: if you must use a temporary home use file(), no
arguments, as that is much more efficient).
--
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