Look into connection objects, which let you open a file or other
readable sort of thing and read it piece by piece. E.g., the
following function opens your file (making a "file connection"),
skips some lines, reads the desired line into a character object,
then reads from that character object (as a "text connection")
to make a numeric object:
f <- function (fileName, lineNumber, ...)
{
connection <- file(fileName, "rt")
on.exit(close(connection))
if (lineNumber > 1) {
readLines(connection, n = lineNumber - 1)
}
lineText <- readLines(connection, n = 1)
scan(textConnection(lineText), ...)
}
Here is a self-contained example:
> tfile <- tempfile()
> cat(file=tfile, sep="\n", "A data file with a header line",
+ "101;102;103", "104,105", "106/107/108")
> cat(readLines(tfile), sep="\n") # look at text in file
A data file with a header line
101;102;103
104,105
106/107/108
> f(tfile, lineNumber=3, sep=",") # read third line as comma separated numbers
Read 2 items
[1] 104 105
Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On
> Behalf Of Tom Roche
> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 12:51 PM
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: [R] [newbie] read row from file into vector
>
>
> summary: how to read a row (not column) from a file into a vector (not a data
> frame)?
>
> details:
>
> I'm using
>
> $ lsb_release -ds
> Linux Mint Debian Edition
> $ uname -rv
> 3.0.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 24 02:24:44 UTC 2011
> $ R --version
> R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
>
> I'm new to R (having previously used it only for graphics), but have worked
> in many other languages.
> I've got a CSV file from which I'd like to read the values from a single
> *row* into a vector. E.g.,
> for a file such that
>
> $ head -n 2 ~/data/foo.csv | tail -n 1
> 5718,0.3,0.47,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.08,0.37,0,0,0.83,1.55,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.00,2.48,2.33,0.17,0,0,0,0,0,
> 0,0.00,10.69,0.18,0,0,0,0
>
> I'd like to be able to populate a vector 'v' s.t. v[1]=5718, ... v[43]=0
>
> I can't seem to do that with, e.g., read.csv(...) or scan(...), both of which
> seem column-oriented.
> What am I missing?
>
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