You can certainly do it after scanning all the numbers in with b <- scan("F:\\stop.txt", what=integer()) b <- b[b!=21]
---------------------------------------------- David L Carlson Associate Professor of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4352 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Naser Jamil > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 4:33 AM > To: R help > Subject: [R] scanning data in R > > Dear R-user, > May I seek your suggestion. I have a data file 'stop' to be scanned in > R. > But I want to ignore one specific number '21' there. Putting > differently, I > want to get all numbers in the file except 21. Is there any command to > achieve it? > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > b<-scan("F:\\stop.txt") > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Many thanks for your kind attention. > > Regards, > Jamil. ______________________________________________ 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.