If the data you want is contiguous, then just 'skip' the number of
records and then read the number you want.
If you want to select a random sample, then checkout
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general/78318/match=random+read
In your case where you want to conditionally read based on values,
then you may have to read in a subset, select the records you want and
then continue reading the file. At then end, you can reconstruct the
data into a single dataframe.`
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Stacey Burrows
<stacey.burrows at yahoo.ca> wrote:> I have a huge dataset for which I only want to read in a subset of it. Is
it possible to use read.table to read in only a subset of the data? For example,
something like read.table('~/data.txt', subset = chromosome=='1'
)
>
> If not, then why not? This seems to be a feature available in all other
statistical software.
>
> Thanks,
> Stacey
>
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