On 8 September 2017 at 11:25, PIKAL Petr <petr.pi...@precheza.cz> wrote:
> > Moller Skarbiniks Pedersen > My program which is slow looks like this: > > > > filename <- "digits.txt" > > lines <- readLines(filename) > > why you do not read a file as a whole e.g. by > > lines<-read.table("digits.txt") > Good idea. > > And now I am lost. [...] > Or do you want one big numeric vector from all your numbers? here you need to read values as character variables > Yes. That's what I am looking for. > > lines<-read.table("digits.txt", colClasses="character") > numbers<-as.numeric(unlist(strsplit(as.character(lines[1,]),""))) > changes first row to numeric vector. > > Do I still need to loop through all lines? It is maybe even slower now. numbers <- vector('numeric') for (i in 1:nrows(lines)) { numbers <- c(numbers, as.numeric(unlist(strsplit(as. character(lines[i,]),"")))) } > Anyway, can you explain what is your final goal? > > A numeric vector of length 1 million. Each element should be one digit. > Cheers > Petr > > Thanks. /Martin [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.