I think "unlist" did the trick ... I used .... tmpData <- unlist (tmpTxtList) tmp_MF_Data_F <- read.table(textConnection(tempTxt), sep=';', quote = '') write.table(tmp_MF_Data_F,file="MF_Data_F.txt", append=T, sep ="|", col.names=F, row.names=F, quote=F)
-----Original Message----- From: Santosh Srinivas [mailto:santosh.srini...@gmail.com] Sent: 11 October 2010 11:05 To: 'r-help' Subject: textConnection on List I'm trying to optimize some code that I have I have a list of delimited text in a list (see below). I want to do a read.table via a text connection so that I can get the delimited values into a table ... Something like ... tmp_MF_Data_F <- read.table(textConnection(tmpTxtList), sep=';', quote = '') ... but this fails ... Any idea how to go about it? Thanks for the help. head(tmpTxtList) [[1]] [1] "\"106270;BIRLA SUN LIFE CAPITAL PROTECTION ORIENTED FUND-3 YRS- DIVIDEND;10.3287;10.3287;0.0000;01-Apr-2008\"" [[2]] [1] "\"106269;BIRLA SUN LIFE CAPITAL PROTECTION ORIENTED FUND-3 YRS- GROWTH;10.3287;10.3287;0.0000;01-Apr-2008\"" [[3]] [1] "\"102767;Birla Sun Life Dynamic Bond Fund-Retail Plan-Growth;12.6832;12.6832;12.6832;01-Apr-2008\"" [[4]] [1] "\"102766;Birla Sun Life Dynamic Bond Fund-Retail Plan-Quarterly Dividend;10.5396;10.5396;10.5396;01-Apr-2008\"" [[5]] [1] "\"102855;Birla Sun Life Fixed Maturity Plan - Annual Series 3-Dividend;9.9830;9.7833;9.9830;01-Apr-2008\"" [[6]] [1] "\"102856;Birla Sun Life Fixed Maturity Plan - Annual Series 3-Growth;12.3964;12.1485;12.3964;01-Apr-2008\"" ______________________________________________ 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.
