Reading and writing data

Hi All,

Two quick questions.

1) I am using write.table to output data.frames to ascii files, e.g.,

test <- data.frame(rnorm(2))
write.table(test,file="output")

"rnorm.2."
"1" -0.718560808193286
"2" -1.07965693020656

Is it possible to output the data without the first column, i.e.,

"rnorm.2."
-0.718560808193286
-1.07965693020656

It's in the help (?write.table):
row.names     either a logical value indicating whether the row names of
x are to be written along with x, or a character vector of row names to
be written.

2) Is there a simple way to read in data and skip lines, i.e., say skip every
second line. I could use ``scan'' to read in the data and use a "for" loop to
perform the skipping in R. However, I am wondering is there a one-step method.

I don't know a one step method.
If the file is not too big, I would try reading in the whole data at
first and through away not needed lines after that.

Uwe
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