On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > Is there any version of grep that gets information from the filename? > > For example: > x <- "myfile.txt" > y <- grep.file("my text", x) > should return in y the lines with my text. > > I know that > x <- "myfile.txt" > y <- grep("my text", readLines(x)) > will probably work, but maybe there's a more direct (and > less memory hungry) option.
Let your system utilities handle the burden. For *NIXes, this approach: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/101103.html and Windows XP http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/101220.html Chuck > > Alberto Monteiro > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > Charles C. Berry (858) 534-2098 Dept of Family/Preventive Medicine E mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UC San Diego http://famprevmed.ucsd.edu/faculty/cberry/ La Jolla, San Diego 92093-0901 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.