You can ignore my question I was able to figure out the way. I guess when I touch R after couple of weeks I am rusty.
-Abhi On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Abhishek Pratap <abhishek....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Guys > > I am trying to read a bunch of files in the loop but pipe function > which I use to cut few columns is somehow unable to interpolate the > file variable. > > > eg: > >> file="check.txt" >> data <- read.table(pipe("cut -f 2,3 file"), sep="\t", >> col.names=c('pos','cov') ) > cut: file: No such file or directory > > how can I pass variable file to pipe so that it can be interpolated. > > Thanks! > -Abhi > ______________________________________________ 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.