On 18/02/2009, at 12:51 PM, Laura Rodriguez Murillo wrote:

Hi dear list,

I wonder if somebody can help me with this. I have a text file with
300 rows and around 300000 columns and I need to insert a column that
has the number 1 in every row. This new column should be placed
between columns 6 and 7.

As an example: I would want to insert a column (consiting just of the
number 1 in every row, as in column 6) between columns 6 and 7.

847 847 0 0 2 1 G G T C A G T T C G A C C C G C A A A G G G G A C A T T 847 847 0 0 2 1 G G T C A G T T C G A C C C G C A A A G G G G A C A T T 847 847 0 0 2 1 G G T C A G T T C G A C C C G C A A A G G G G A C A T T 847 847 0 0 2 1 G G T C A G T T C G A C C C G C A A A G G G G A C A T T 847 847 0 0 2 1 G G T C A G T T C G A C C C G C A A A G G G G A C A T T 847 847 0 0 2 1 G G T C A G T T C G A C C C G C A A A G G G G A C A T T

So the new table would look like this:

847 847 0 0 2 1 1 G G T C A G T T C G A C C C G C A A A G G G G A C A T T 847 847 0 0 2 1 1 G G T C A G T T C G A C C C G C A A A G G G G A C A T T 847 847 0 0 2 1 1 G G T C A G T T C G A C C C G C A A A G G G G A C A T T 847 847 0 0 2 1 1 G G T C A G T T C G A C C C G C A A A G G G G A C A T T 847 847 0 0 2 1 1 G G T C A G T T C G A C C C G C A A A G G G G A C A T T 847 847 0 0 2 1 1 G G T C A G T T C G A C C C G C A A A G G G G A C A T T

You can also look at this problem as duplicating column 6.

(1) y <- cbind(x[,1:6],clyde=rep(1,300),x[,7:ncol(x)])

(2) y <- as.data.frame(c(x[1:6],list(clyde=rep(1,300)),x[7:length(x)]))

where x is your original data stored as a matrix or data frame in method (1), and as a data frame in method (2), and y is the new data set with the extra
column of 1's.

Or, if you really are just duplicating column 6:

        y <- x[,c(1:6,6,7:ncol(x))]
        names(y)[7] <- "clyde"        # For consistency with other methods.

These work with your toy example. I haven't tried them out with data sets of
the size of your real data set.

        cheers,

                Rolf Turner

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