On Nov 4, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Jon Minton wrote:
> Do any of you know if there's an equivalent function to the Stata
> command:
>
> Use v1 v3 v5 v2 v7 using file.dat
>
> In R? (i.e. something that just selectively loads certain variables
> from a
> file and not others)?
How about (assuming that columns in 'file.dat' are separated by white
space)
data <- read.table("file.dat", header = T, sep = " ") # reads in the
whole file
data <- data[, c(1, 3, 5, 2, 7)] # keeps the columns you need
For more, see http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/doc/manual/R-data.html
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