how to skip last lines while reading the data in R
or even:
head(read.table("xy.dat", header = TRUE), -2)
On Jan 28, 2008 10:52 AM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
If you don't mind reading it in twice its just:
DF <- read.table("xy.dat", header = TRUE, nrow =
length(readLines("xy.dat")) - 3)
tail(DF)
# or
DF <- read.table("xy.dat", header = TRUE, nrow =
length(count.fields("xy.dat")) - 3)
tail(DF)
# or
DF <- read.table("xy.dat", header = TRUE, nrow =
nrow(read.table("xy.dat", header = TRUE)) - 2)
tail(DF)
On Jan 28, 2008 5:10 AM, mrafi <confessin at gmail.com> wrote:
hey all greetings hey all am an engineering student...and am trying to learn R i am trying to automate reading a specific type of file...and perform certain functions...but i want to omit lines in the end of the file.. there is an option for skiping the lines before begining...but how can i ask R to read till n-2th or n-3th row...or skip the last 2 or 3 rows while reading... i have files of diff. number of lines...!! i wd be grateful to u if u can help me out of this..!!! thanks in advance Rafi...!! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/how-to-skip-last-lines-while-reading-the-data-in-R-tp15132030p15132030.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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