[R] data import problem

[Philipp Pagel]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:49:29PM +0100, Arne.Muller at sanofi-aventis.com wrote:
> Well, the data is generated by a perl script, and I could just
> configure the perl script so that there is one file per data table,
> but I though I'd probably must more efficent to have all records in a
> single file rather than reading a thousands of small files ... .

I guess I would make it a singe file and put the IDs in their own
column:

 ID         x         y
123   89.1791    1.1024
123   90.5735    1.1024
123   92.5666    1.1024
123   95.0725    1.1024
123  101.2070    1.1024
321   60.1601    1.1024
321   64.8023    1.1024
321   70.0593    2.1502
...

cu
	Philipp

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