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Re: [S] reading files a portion at a time (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ranjan Maitra)
Mon Aug 2 11:08:06 1999
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 11:04:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ranjan Maitra <maitra@math.umbc.edu>
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I got the following from Chuck Taylor: thanks, Chuck!
Ranjan
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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 08:00:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chuck Taylor <chuck@statsci.com>
To: Ranjan Maitra <maitra@math.umbc.edu>
Subject: Re: [S] reading files a portion at a time
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Does anyone know how I can read a file a portion at a time. As an example:
> suppose I have a file of 100 numbers. I want to read 50 of these, do some
> operations, and then read the remaining 50.
Splus 5.0 and 5.1 on Unix include a function called "readNextDataRows", which
does exactly what you are asking for.
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