Try this after read the data file:
dat[is.na(dat[,5]),5] <- '-'
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Gundala Viswanath <gunda...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a data file that looks like this.
>
> __DATA__
> D7KAR5Z02F447V 176 G 0.22
> D7KAR5Z02J3WLG 94 A 1.05 29
> D7KAR5Z02F4K6L 198 a 0.13
> D7KAR5Z02J4SYO 67 C 0.95 28
> D7KAR5Z02J4SYO 83 C 1.01 29
> D7KAR5Z02J4SYO 97 T 0.13
> D7KAR5Z02J4SYO 166 A 0.94 27
>
>
> I want the rows where the last column has no-entry to be filled
> with "-".
>
> Is there a way to do it with read.table?
> I don't find any option to do it with read.table.
>
> This only fill the empty 5th column with blank.
>
> dat <- read.table("myfile.txt",na.strings="-",header=FALSE,fill=T);
>
> G.V.
>
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