On 17/07/2007 5:25 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski wrote: > I have to read in a file that is "!" delimited. > Would it be correct to use the following syntax: > > Data<-read.delim(file.choose(),sep="!") > > Or would it be wrong? I am asking rather than trying it just because I > have 3.5 million cases to read in.
If you have 3.5 million cases to read, you should specify the column classes. I'd recommend setting nrows to a small number for a few tries first, until you get it right. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
