Is this what you want: > x <- read.table(textConnection('"read" "no" "length" + 2 2 144 + 7 7 47490 + 9 9 310944 + 11 11 10089 + 14 14 13152 + 17 17 27363 '), header=TRUE) > closeAllConnections() > result <- lapply(1:nrow(x), function(.indx){ + data.frame(read=paste(x$read[.indx], seq(x$length[.indx] %/% 100 + 1), sep="_"), + no=rep(x$no[.indx], x$length[.indx] %/% 100 + 1), + length=c(rep(100, x$length[.indx] %/% 100), x$length[.indx] %% 100)) + }) > result <- do.call(rbind, result) > > str(result) 'data.frame': 4094 obs. of 3 variables: $ read : Factor w/ 4094 levels "2_1","2_2","7_1",..: 1 2 3 114 225 336 423 434 445 456 ... $ no : int 2 2 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 ... $ length: num 100 44 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 ... > head(result) read no length 1 2_1 2 100 2 2_2 2 44 3 7_1 7 100 4 7_2 7 100 5 7_3 7 100 6 7_4 7 100 >
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 5:16 AM, mitras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear all, > I have one problem to handle a large dataset... > It looks like: > "read" "no" "length" > 2 2 144 > 7 7 47490 > 9 9 310944 > 11 11 10089 > 14 14 13152 > 17 17 27363 and so on > There are 130000 rows > > >From this table I need to make a table like > 2_1 2 100 > 2_2 2 44 > 7_1 7 100 > 7_2 7 100 > ... > ... > 7_474 7 100 > 7_475 7 90 > 9_1 9 100 > 9_2 9 100 and so on... > > In words: I want to divide the 3rd column by 100 to keep the length 100 and > increasing no of rows needed, where no will be same for all increased rows, > but the read will be changed like 2_1,2_2 and so on.. > Please let me know if any one can help. > Thanks a lot in advance. > Best, > Mitra. > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Help-processing-large-data-tp20716564p20716564.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.