You can use colClasses; e.g.,
write.table(iris, file="iris.dat", sep="|", quote=FALSE, row=FALSE)
test <- read.delim("iris.dat", sep="|", header=TRUE,
colClass=c("numeric", rep("NULL", 4)))
head(test)
Sepal.Length 1 5.1 2 4.9 3 4.7 4 4.6 5 5.0 6 5.4 Andy
From: Christoph Lehmann Hi if I use read.delim, I can specify how many lines I want to import. Is there also a way to specify that, e.g. I want only the first column field of each line to have imported? thanks for a hint cheers christoph
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