[R] txt file, 14000+ rows, only last 8000 appear
Philipp Pagel
p.pagel at wzw.tum.de
Sun Jun 8 15:04:00 CEST 2008
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 02:30:56PM -0700, RobertsLRRI wrote:
> when I load my data file in txt format into the R workstation I lose about
> 6000 rows, this is a problem. Is there a limit to the display capabilities
> for the workstation? is all the information there and I just can't see the
> first couple thousand rows?
There are many possiblities. Yes, there can be a limit of what R will
diplay to you. E.g. when I load a large data frame and have R print it
to the screen I get :
> foo <- read.table('some-large-table')
> foo
[... lots of row here ...]
1780 11019 7519 -0.242 -0.158 -50 0 0
1781 13729 7371 -0.255 -0.296 -50 0 0
1782 117208 68035 8.000 3.027 0 0 0
1783 10646 12121 -0.892 0.008 -50 0 0
1784 13100 12342 -0.560 -0.051 -50 0 0
1785 13772 11613 0.086 0.742 0 0 0
[ reached getOption("max.print") -- omitted 4936 rows ]]
but the data is all there:
> dim(foo)
[1] 6721 56
So the first thing you need to do is figure out if R is reading all data
or not. In case you find that you really end up with too few rows, I'd
have a look at the 'quote' option of read.table (assuming that's how you
read the file).
In order to give better advice, we'd need to know what you did and why
you think not all data is there.
cu
Philipp
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Dr. Philipp Pagel
Lehrstuhl für Genomorientierte Bioinformatik
Technische Universität München
Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan
85350 Freising, Germany
http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel
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