On 7 Oct 2004 at 20:18, Kunal Shetty wrote:
> 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. Hi Better to read by appropriate read.whatever() function to data frame, see eg. ?read.table I hope you have already read some intro documents in which there is stated how you could read your data and organize them. I also recommend to go through Paul Johnsons Rtips. You can find it by e.g. Google. Cheers Petr > > 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 Petr Pikal [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ [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
