[R] reading in only one column from text file

[Peter Dalgaard]

"mark salsburg" <mark.salsburg at gmail.com> writes:

> How do I manipulate the read.table function to read in only the 2nd
> column???

Something along the lines of

cc <- rep("NULL", ncols)
cc[2] <- NA # use type.convert
read.table(.... colClasses=cc ....)


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