I did not see a reply to your question. I don't know if you can do it within
scan but why not just read in the file and then drop the 21?
dat <- scan("stop.txt", sep = "\t")
dat1 <- dat[dat!= 21]
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jamilnase...@gmail.com
> Sent: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 10:33:16 +0100
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> 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.
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