It's apparently a unix command; www.r-project.org - search - R
site search - sed produced at least one hit with the following example:
scan(pipe(sed -e s/,$// data2), sep=,)
For the rest of this comment, see the R site search. hope this
helps. spencer graves
Yong Wang wrote:
Dear Spenser et al.,
sed stands for string editor, I believe, and it is a Unix utility,
although there are implementations for other OS's including Windows.
For Yong Wang's problem, I think that it is more natural to use the
na.strings argument to read.table(), as I previously suggested, than to
Hi,all
a quick question
A larger file include many. (stands for missing
value) for variable, say, x. after
read in the file and assign it another name such as :
x1-data$x
but x1 is always a facotor but not numerical.
so How can I get a numeric vector from the read in data frame.
how can I
Dear Yong Wang,
When you read the data with read.table, specify the argument na.strings=..
See ?read.table for details.
I hope that this helps,
John
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If the data file is in text format, is large with a lot of .s, use sed.
It's MUCH faster than any other tool for this sort of thing.
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Samir, can you give an example for the use of sed?
On Sun, 30 May 2004, Samir Mishra wrote:
If the data file is in text format, is large with a lot of .s, use sed.
It's MUCH faster than any other tool for this sort of thing.
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