[R] lines those not started with "rs"

[Robert Sherry]

then my solution should work.

Bob
On 1/30/2017 9:44 AM, greg holly wrote:
> Hi Robert;
>
> I do appreciate your advice. Only the first column of the data is 
> text. The rest columns are numeric.
>
> Regards,
>
> Greg
>
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 9:36 AM, Robert Sherry <rsherry8 at comcast.net 
> <mailto:rsherry8 at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>     Greg,
>
>     I am assuming that your data is in a text file. R is a good tool
>     but not the tool I would use for this job. The tool I would
>     use is grep. The following command should get you want you want:
>              grep -v "^rs" <data file name>
>
>     Bob
>
>
>     On 1/30/2017 9:23 AM, greg holly wrote:
>
>         Hi all;
>
>         I have a file which has about 3.000.000 lines. Most of the
>         lines at first
>         column start with "rs", for example, rs10000056, rs10000076
>         and so on. I
>         would like to get the lines which do not start with "rs" .
>         Your helps
>         highly appreciated.
>
>         Regards,
>
>         Greg
>
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