Jim, this is a GREAT help. I was trying something similar before, but I was unable to detect EOF. Thanks for the help!
Also, David, your suggestion worked perfectly. Thanks for all the help, everyone! On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 2:08 PM, jim holtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you tried: > > data_filter <- data[842:2411] > > Also if you have a lot of data to read, I would suggest that you use a > connection, and it all the data is numeric, possibly 'scan'. If you > do use a connection, this would eliminate having to 'skip' each time > which could be time consuming on a large file. Since it appears that > you are not writing out the column names in the output file, you could > bypass the header line on the file by readLine after the open. So > something like this might work: > > input <- file('yourfile','r') > invisible(readLines(input, n=1)) # skip the header > while (TRUE){ # read file > x <- try(read.csv(input, n=320, header=FALSE), silent=TRUE) # catch EOF > if (inherits(x, 'try-error')) break > write.csv(.......) > } > > > > On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Jason Thibodeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I realize that using: x[x > 3 & x < 5] I can fetch all elements between 3 > > and 5. However I read in from a CSV file, and I would like to fetch all > > columns from within a range ( 842-2411). In teh past, I have done this to > > fetch just select few columns: > > > > data <- read.csv(filein, header=TRUE, nrows=320, skip=nskip) > > data_filter <- data[c(2,12,17)] > > write.table(data_filter, fileout, append = TRUE, > > sep= ",", row.names= FALSE, col.names = FALSE) > > nskip <- nskip+320 > > > > This time, however, instead of grabbing columns 2, 12, 17, I woudl like > all > > columns in the range of 842-2411. I can't seem to do this correctly. > Could > > somebody please provide some insight? Thanks in advance. > > > > -- > > Jason Thibodeau > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org 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. > > > > > > -- > Jim Holtman > Cincinnati, OH > +1 513 646 9390 > > What is the problem that you are trying to solve? > -- Jason Thibodeau [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.