On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear all, > > I am reading the data using "read.table". However, there are a few rows I > want to skip. How can I do that in an easy way? Suppose I know the row > number that I want to skip. Thanks so much!
The easy way is to read the whole data frame and using indexing (see `An Introduction to R') to remove the rows you do not want to retain. E.g. to remove rows 17 and 137 mydf <- read.table(...)[-c(17, 137), ] -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.