You are not reading the Help file correctly. It says:
"Character.A vector of classes to be assumed for the columns. Recycled as
necessary."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
colClasses=NULL) means that you have no colClasses argument. It does exactly
what you tell it to (use whatever defaults it has, inother words).
c("numeric","NULL",...)) ## however many more columns you have for ...
Please note the **quotes** . It behaves as documented.
-- Bert Gunter
Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics
South San Francisco, CA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mark salsburg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 1:57 PM
> To: Berton Gunter
> Subject: Re: [R] reading in only one column from text file
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> I've tried that:
>
> read.table(myData, colClasses = NULL)
>
> colClasses doesn't seem to do anything when I put in NULL.
>
> How do I tell R to skip the 2nd column i'm reading in???
>
> thank you,
>
>
>
>
> On 3/7/06, Berton Gunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> See the "NULL" value for argument colClasses of read.table().
>
> -- Bert Gunter
> Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics
> South San Francisco, CA
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> > How do I manipulate the read.table function to read
> in only the 2nd
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