On 05/08/2014 19:15, sbihorel wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, read.table() does not have the text
argument in the version of R that I can use.
Do you know when was this argument introduced?
No, but the posting guide asked you to update *before posting* (have you
yet read it?: you still sent HTML when asked not to).
In any case, the help text tells you how to do it: use a text connection.
Sebastien
On 05/08/2014 18:29, sbihorel wrote:
/ Hi,
/>/
/>/ Let's say that I have a scalar character object called tmp which stores
/>/ the entire content of an ASCII file. Is there a function that would
/>/ process tmp the same way read.table() would process the content of the
/>/ original ASCII file?
/>/
/>/ The content of tmp will come from a database, and I want to extract the
/>/ data without writing and reading to disk or without asking the database
/>/ to transform the file content into a table.
/
The equivalent is read.table. See its 'text' argument:
text: character string: if 'file' is not supplied and this is, then
data are read from the value of 'text' via a text connection.
Notice that a literal string can be used to include (small)
data sets within R code.
/
/>/ Thank you
/>/
/>/ Sebastien
/>/ //
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