[newbie] read row from file into vector
On 11-12-29 3:51 PM, Tom Roche wrote:
summary: how to read a row (not column) from a file into a vector (not a data frame)? details: I'm using $ lsb_release -ds Linux Mint Debian Edition $ uname -rv 3.0.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 24 02:24:44 UTC 2011 $ R --version R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22) I'm new to R (having previously used it only for graphics), but have worked in many other languages. I've got a CSV file from which I'd like to read the values from a single *row* into a vector. E.g., for a file such that $ head -n 2 ~/data/foo.csv | tail -n 1 5718,0.3,0.47,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.08,0.37,0,0,0.83,1.55,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.00,2.48,2.33,0.17,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.00,10.69,0.18,0,0,0,0 I'd like to be able to populate a vector 'v' s.t. v[1]=5718, ... v[43]=0 I can't seem to do that with, e.g., read.csv(...) or scan(...), both of which seem column-oriented. What am I missing?
Those are both column oriented, but you can change the result to a
vector after reading it.
For example,
x <- read.csv("foo.csv", nrow=1)
x <- as.numeric(x[1,]) # convert to numeric vector
If you don't want the first row, use skip=<something> in the read.csv
call.
Duncan Murdoch