[R] reading in "!" - delimited file

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 17/07/2007 5:25 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski wrote:
> I have to read in a file that is "!" delimited.
> Would it be correct to use the following syntax:
> 
> Data<-read.delim(file.choose(),sep="!")
> 
> Or would it be wrong? I am asking rather than trying it just because I
> have 3.5 million cases to read in.

If you have 3.5 million cases to read, you should specify the column 
classes.  I'd recommend setting nrows to a small number for a few tries 
first, until you get it right.

Duncan Murdoch