--- On Mon 11/10, Mathieu Drapeau < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Is it normal that it takes a very long time to generate a > connection object on a big character vector?
If the reason you need a text connection is that you are locating your data via a tag like this: lines <- readLines( "input.txt" ) # lines is a vector of lines g <- grep( "start", lines ) # position of tag mydata <- read.table( textConnection(lines), skip=g[1], head=TRUE ) then you could simply read your data twice like this: lines <- readLines( "input.txt" ) # lines is a vector of lines g <- grep( "start", lines ) # position of tag mydata <- read.table( "input.txt", skip=g[1], head=TRUE ) ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
