James Thank you for response. I am working on treatment for missing data for both bivariate and multivariate normal data. Coming back to example. My problem was that once we do execute this command x.1 <- read.table('/tempxx.txt', fill=T)
How can access the particular column say X8 and all it’s values so that I could assign some other operations on them. Because if I say print.default(x.1) the result.. V1 V2 1 X y 2 8 10 3 11 1 4 4 16 16 5 18 15 6 6 20 7 4 4 8 20 18 9 25 22 and I want to access V1 values….. thank you regards Kunal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > If you have an unequal number of columns, then use 'fill=T' on read.table > > It puts NAs. > > Is this what you want? > > Here is what happens on the input file which is your data and some extra > columns: > > 8 10 > 11 14 > 16 16 > 18 15 12 > 6 20 > 4 4 12 > 20 18 > > > > x.1 <- read.table('/tempxx.txt', fill=T) > > x.1 > X8 X10 > 11 14 NA > 16 16 NA > 18 15 12 > 6 20 NA > 4 4 12 > 20 18 NA > __________________________________________________________ > James Holtman "What is the problem you are trying to solve?" > Executive Technical Consultant -- Office of Technology, Convergys > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +1 (513) 723-2929 > > > > Kunal Shetty > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > .edu> cc: > Sent by: Subject: [R] Read.Table Reading a Text file > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ath.ethz.ch > > > 10/07/2004 16:18 > > > > > > > Dear R users and Helpers > > I am beginner with using R and interested in carrying out certain task > for > my statistical research. > I am reading data for a text file, which could contain data in following > pattern > > x y > 8 10 > 11 14 > 16 16 > 18 15 > 6 20 > 4 4 > 20 18 > > As per the example I have two columns and 7 rows of data in each. > However is real life data situation I may not know how many columns are > present and how rows are present and also with the certain data is > missing. Yes I am assuming the data is delimited my Tab. > > > My question or rather problem is I want read data from each colum say col > x > (8,11,16,18….20) and store it into a variable so that I could perform > some > operations on them. > > I have also looked into certain R-help for Read.table and data.frame but > still struggling on my requirement. They are > > http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/07/2040.html > http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/07/3152.html > > > Regards > Kunal > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html