OK thanks, I look at sleep and get it Bill
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Peter Dalgaard <p.dalga...@biostat.ku.dk> wrote: > William Simpson wrote: >>> As I understand it, they don't come in pairs anyway. >> Correct. >> >>> For the same reason >>> a data frame is just the wrong kind of data structure. If you don't want >>> separate data files, you can use one file with two columns where the >>> second column is (say) 1 for the x and 2 for the y. >> Could you explain this further? I don't really get it. >> My xs and ys have different lengths. How would I read them in? > > Same format as when you have data from two different groups. Don't > really know how to make it clearer than that. Like the "sleep" dataset > (OK, so they are actually paired...). > >> >> Ideally I would just read in the x column and y columns separately >> >> x<-read.file("file.dat", column1) >> y<-read.file("file.dat", column2) >> But I know of no way to do that... >> >> [Oh, by the way, I never mentioned this, the x and ys are event times >> and are in ascending order (by time of occurrence).] >> >>> (There are other options, like concatenating the x and the y with some >>> sort of separator inbetween, but it easily gets painful to read them >>> back in.) > > -- > O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Ă˜ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B > c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K > (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 > ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalga...@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 > > ______________________________________________ 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.