On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, mrafi wrote:
> but then the number of levels would reamain the same...!!
Please explain: the levels of factors are taken from the data which is
actually read.
>
>
> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>
>> 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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