Re: [R] Read a file on every 0.5 (or less) second intervall

2015-11-07 Thread peter dalgaard
> On 07 Nov 2015, at 04:56 , Mohammad Tanvir Ahamed via R-help > wrote: > > Hi, > i want to read a file on every 0.5 (or less) second. How can i set this time > loop to read a file ? > Any idea will be appreciated . Thanks . Tanvir Ahamed Sys.sleep() if exact timing is not too critical. Oth

Re: [R] Read a file on every 0.5 (or less) second intervall

2015-11-07 Thread jim holtman
?Sys.sleep Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 10:56 PM, Mohammad Tanvir Ahamed via R-help < r-help@r-project.org> wrote: > Hi, > i want to read a file on every 0.5 (or les

[R] Read a file on every 0.5 (or less) second intervall

2015-11-06 Thread Mohammad Tanvir Ahamed via R-help
Hi, i want to read a file on every 0.5 (or less) second. How can i set this time loop to read a file ? Any idea will be appreciated . Thanks .  Tanvir Ahamed Göteborg, Sweden | mashra...@yahoo.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __

Re: [R] read a file of text with read.table

2014-06-26 Thread David Winsemius
On Jun 26, 2014, at 12:59 AM, Ron Crump wrote: > Hi Carol, >> It might be a primitive question but I have a file of text and there is no >> separator between character on each line and the strings on each line have >> the same length. The format is like the following >> >> absfjdslf >> jfdldsk

Re: [R] read a file of text with read.table

2014-06-26 Thread Ron Crump
Hi Carol, It might be a primitive question but I have a file of text and there is no separator between character on each line and the strings on each line have the same length. The format is like the following absfjdslf jfdldskjff jfsldfjslk When I read the file with read.table("myfile",colCl

Re: [R] read a file of text with read.table

2014-06-26 Thread Rolf Turner
On 26/06/14 21:21, carol white wrote: Hi, with read.fwf, it works. But I still don't understand why it doesn't work with read.table since the sep by default is "", which is the case and in one trial, I used read.table("myfile",colClasses = "character", stringsAsFactors=FALSE, and stil didn't

Re: [R] read a file of text with read.table

2014-06-26 Thread Göran Broström
Carol, while sep="" is the default, it really means 'whitespace', see the documentation of 'sep'. Göran Broström On 2014-06-26 11:21, carol white wrote: Hi, with read.fwf, it works. But I still don't understand why it doesn't work with read.table since the sep by default is "", which is t

Re: [R] read a file of text with read.table

2014-06-26 Thread Rolf Turner
On 26/06/14 20:47, Frede Aakmann Tøgersen wrote: Hi Actually I had to read the man before answering Carol. Here it goes: stringsAsFactors: logical: should character vectors be converted to factors? Note that this is overridden by 'as.is' and 'colClasses', both of which al

Re: [R] read a file of text with read.table

2014-06-26 Thread carol white
Hi, with read.fwf, it works. But I still don't understand why it doesn't work with read.table since the sep by default is "", which is the case and in one trial, I used  read.table("myfile",colClasses = "character", stringsAsFactors=FALSE, and stil didn't work but it should have. Regards,

Re: [R] read a file of text with read.table

2014-06-26 Thread Frede Aakmann Tøgersen
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Re: [R] read a file of text with read.table

2014-06-26 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, Try using option stringsAsFactors = FALSE. Hope this helps, Rui Barradas On 26/06/2014 09:32, carol white wrote: It might be a primitive question but I have a file of text and there is no separator between character on each line and the strings on each line have the same length. The

Re: [R] read a file of text with read.table

2014-06-26 Thread Rolf Turner
On 26/06/14 19:32, carol white wrote: It might be a primitive question All questions are primitive; some questions are more primitive than others. but I have a file of text and there is no separator between character on each line and the strings on each line have the same length. The format

Re: [R] read a file of text with read.table

2014-06-26 Thread Frede Aakmann Tøgersen
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[R] read a file of text with read.table

2014-06-26 Thread carol white
It might be a primitive question but I have a file of text and there is no separator between character on each line and the strings on each line have the same length. The format is like the following absfjdslf jfdldskjff jfsldfjslk When I read the file with read.table("myfile",colClasses = "cha

Re: [R] read a file into a matrix

2009-11-20 Thread jim holtman
What is wrong with the "extra step"? Is it taking too much time (you did not specify that), is it taking too much memory? How many times are you going to be doing it? If not many, then may be it is OK. You have to quantify what you are asking for. It may take longer to send a message to R-Help

Re: [R] read a file into a matrix

2009-11-20 Thread David Winsemius
On Nov 20, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Peng Yu wrote: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Steve Lianoglou wrote: read.delim gives me a data.frame. Is there a function that can return the result in a matrix rather than data.frame? m <- as.matrix(read.delim(..)) I knew this approach. But this takes a

Re: [R] read a file into a matrix

2009-11-20 Thread Benilton Carvalho
I can't think of anything that is already built in. But you can always: read.as.matrix <- function(...) as.matrix(read.delim(...)) and now you get one step only ;-) b On Nov 20, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Peng Yu wrote: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Steve Lianoglou wrote: read.delim gives me a

Re: [R] read a file into a matrix

2009-11-20 Thread Peng Yu
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Steve Lianoglou wrote: >> read.delim gives me a data.frame. Is there a function that can return >> the result in a matrix rather than data.frame? > > m <- as.matrix(read.delim(..)) I knew this approach. But this takes an extra step. Is there a command that read a

Re: [R] read a file into a matrix

2009-11-20 Thread Steve Lianoglou
read.delim gives me a data.frame. Is there a function that can return the result in a matrix rather than data.frame? m <- as.matrix(read.delim(..)) -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Weill Medical College o

[R] read a file into a matrix

2009-11-20 Thread Peng Yu
read.delim gives me a data.frame. Is there a function that can return the result in a matrix rather than data.frame? __ 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.o

Re: [R] Read a file

2008-08-28 Thread Henrique Dallazuanna
Try this: x <- readLines('clipboard') newx <- as.numeric(x[setdiff(seq(length(x)), grep("^#", x))]) comment(newx) <- grep("^#", x, value = TRUE) newx comment(newx) On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Dani Valverde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hello, > I have a text file with this structure: > > # F

Re: [R] Read a file

2008-08-28 Thread jim holtman
Is this what you want to do: > x <- scan('clipboard', what="", sep="\n") Read 18 items > x [1] "# File created = Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:33:02 PM GMT" [2] "# Data set = 373 2 1 C:\\Bruker\\TOPSPIN GABRMN" [3] "# Spectral Region:" [4] "# LEFT = 4.5 ppm. RIGHT = 0.5 ppm." [5] "#" [6] "

[R] Read a file

2008-08-28 Thread Dani Valverde
Hello, I have a text file with this structure: # File created = Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:33:02 PM GMT # Data set = 373 2 1 C:\Bruker\TOPSPIN GABRMN # Spectral Region: # LEFT = 4.5 ppm. RIGHT = 0.5 ppm. # # SIZE = 13111 ( = number of points) # # In the following ordering is from the 'left'