Tom Roche 11-12-29 3:51 PM >>> E.g., for a file such that >>> $ head -n 2 ~/data/foo.csv | tail -n 1 >>> 5718,0.3,0.47,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.08,0.37,0,0,0.83,1.55,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.00,2.48,2.33,0.17,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.00,10.69,0.18,0,0,0,0
>>> I'd like to be able to populate a vector 'v' s.t. >>> v[1]=5718, ... v[43]=0 Duncan Murdoch Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:45:45 -0500 >> x <- read.csv("foo.csv", nrow=1) >> x <- as.numeric(x[1,]) # convert to numeric vector Aha! William Dunlap Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:49:13 +0000 > Look into connection objects, which let you open a file or other > readable sort of thing and read it piece by piece. Will do, since what I plan to use R for (mostly) is manipulating very large netCDF files. thanks, all! Tom Roche <tom_ro...@pobox.com> ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.