then my solution should work. Bob On 1/30/2017 9:44 AM, greg holly wrote: > Hi Robert; > > I do appreciate your advice. Only the first column of the data is > text. The rest columns are numeric. > > Regards, > > Greg > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 9:36 AM, Robert Sherry <rsher...@comcast.net > <mailto:rsher...@comcast.net>> wrote: > > Greg, > > I am assuming that your data is in a text file. R is a good tool > but not the tool I would use for this job. The tool I would > use is grep. The following command should get you want you want: > grep -v "^rs" <data file name> > > Bob > > > On 1/30/2017 9:23 AM, greg holly wrote: > > Hi all; > > I have a file which has about 3.000.000 lines. Most of the > lines at first > column start with "rs", for example, rs10000056, rs10000076 > and so on. I > would like to get the lines which do not start with "rs" . > Your helps > highly appreciated. > > Regards, > > Greg > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org <mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing > list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > <http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org <mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing list -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > <http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >
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