[R] Is it possible to only read a subset by read.table ?

[Roger Peng]

It's not so straightforward as that, but you could construct something
with readLines().

-roger

On 7/12/06, David Vonka <D.Vonka at uvt.nl> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is it possible to do something like
>
> DATA <- read.table(file="blabla.dat",subset=(sex=="male")),
>
> i.e. make R read only a subset of a csv file ?
> I think it would be useful in case of very big datasets,
> but I can't find such a feature.
>
> Thanks for an answer,
> David Vonka
>
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