Re: [R] Splitting a file into multiple files based on the column name

You can read the data in, then use 'grep' to determine which rows match, then write the files out: x <- read.table() rowIndx <- grep("Sick|CB", x$col) write.table(x[rowIndx,], file="match") write.table(x[-rowIndx,], file="nomatch") On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:48 PM, kayj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

[R] Splitting a file into multiple files based on the column name

Hi, I have a txt file here I want to split it into different files based on the column name if it contains a specific word or part of a word. For example, If the header looks like A001_Sick A015_SBK99_SickL913_BB I would like to split the data , one file contains the data with