[R] memory allocation error

[Pierre Kleiber]

A way to read particular columns (if you have unix-like tools):

> dat <- matrix(scan(pipe("awk '{print $2,$5,$7}' filename")),byrow=T,ncol=3)

That would get column 2, 5, and 7 of "filename" into a three column matrix. 
(Not so sure it qualifies as an excuse not to learn how to use RODBC)
 
  Cheers, Pierre


-- 
"M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" wrote:
> 
> On 22 Mar 2001, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> 
> > [Anyone for implementing a columns= option for scan() and read.xxx() ??]
> 
> Nah ... that would give me an excuse not to learn how to use RODBC :-) I ended
> up going back to Access and dropping a bunch of columns from the query before
> I exported it to a CSV file. Another excuse not to learn RODBC :-).
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