[R] how do I read only specific columns using read.csv or other read function
Ben Tupper
PemaquidRiver at tidewater.net
Wed Jul 2 13:09:53 CEST 2008
On Jul 2, 2008, at 6:53 AM, Philip James Smith wrote:
> Hi R people:
>
> I have huge files with as many as 5000 columns. I'd really like to
> read only certain columns of those files. I know column names I
> want to read.
>
> I looked at the documentation of read.csv . Although there is a
> col.names option, it allows users to specify the names of the
> columns, rather than to pick the columns of interest.
>
> Any suggestions on how to pick the columns I want to read only,
> rather than the entire file, would be greatly appreciated.
>
Hello,
I think you want explicitly set the colClasses argument such that the
columns you *don't* want are set to NULL and all others are set to
appropriate classes.
Cheers,
Ben
> Phil Smith
> Duluth, GA
>
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