Re: [R] Reading parts of data files

2010-11-23 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:05 AM, fbielejec wrote: > Dear, > > I'm doing analysis where I need to work on relatively large (50-60 MB) > text files, though I'm really interested only in parts with binary > variables (named indicators1, indicators2, ... etc.) > > Every text file contains other numeri

Re: [R] Reading parts of data files

2010-11-23 Thread jim holtman
?file - how to use connections ?read.table'skip' parameter, colClasses to only read columns you want That is not a large file. Read the whole thing in and then extract the data you need. On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:05 AM, fbielejec wrote: > Dear, > > I'm doing analysis where I need to work

[R] Reading parts of data files

2010-11-23 Thread fbielejec
Dear, I'm doing analysis where I need to work on relatively large (50-60 MB) text files, though I'm really interested only in parts with binary variables (named indicators1, indicators2, ... etc.) Every text file contains other numeric columns, but not always the same and not always in the same o