On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Rui Song wrote: > Thanks for your reply, I chose to use scan here. So can I ask another > question, which function works faster, scan or read.table?
read.table calls scan, and the two functions do different jobs. read.table reads in a data frame. scan reads a vector or list Since neither can do exactly what the other does, neither can be faster. For further discussion, including on speed, please read ?read.table and the `R Data Import/Export' manual. -- 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 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
