Hello, For some reason, I did not receive your replies on my email client and had to copy-paste the content of the thread directly from the R archive website. Thank you for pointing out the text connection solution.
Regarding the posting guide, I read it 6-7 years ago when I joined the mailing list and must admit that I did not read it since. Never had any issues in the past sending post in plain text or HTML format. That being said, I will be careful about this in the future. Thank you for your help. Sebastien On 05/08/2014 19:15, sbihorel wrote:
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/>/ />/ 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.
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/>/ 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 />/ />/ // />/ />/ />/ />/ [[alternative HTML version deleted]] />/ />/ />/ />/ ______________________________________________ />/ />/ R-help at r-project.org <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> mailing list />/ />/https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help />/ />/ PLEASE do read the postingguidehttp://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html />/ />/ and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. />/ />/ />/ /PLEASE do. />/ / -- Brian D. Ripley,ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> Professor of Applied Statistics,http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ <http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/%7Eripley/> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ 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.
