I think you can use readLines(n=1) in loop to skip unwanted rows. On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:56 AM, <g...@ucalgary.ca> wrote: > Thanks, Juliet. > It works for filtering columns. > I am also wondering if there is a way to filter rows. > Thanks again. > -james > >> One can use colClasses to set which columns get read in. For the >> columns you don't >> want you can set those to NULL. For example, >> >> cc <- c("NULL",rep("numeric",9)) >> >> myData <- >> read.table("myFile.txt",header=TRUE,colClasses=cc,nrow=numRows). >> >> >> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:27 PM, <g...@ucalgary.ca> wrote: >>> We are reading big tables, such as, >>> >>> Chemicals <- >>> read.table('ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/time.series/wp/wp.data.7.Chemicals',header >>> = TRUE, sep = '\t', as.is =T) >>> >>> I was wondering if it is possible to set a filter during loading so >>> that >>> we just load what we want not the whole table each time. Thanks, >>> >>> -james >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >> >> >> > > ______________________________________________ > 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. >
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