> On Dec 5, 2015, at 4:49 PM, Glenn Schultz <glennmschu...@me.com> wrote: > > All, > > I have not used SED in the past so I am continuing to read its documentation > but I need some help with R > > Here is my SED command which works: > system("sed -i '' '/^[\r#]/d; /AGENCY/d' > /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.2/Resources/library/BondLab/Temp_CashFlow/blx_test.cfm") > > Here are my R commands which do not work. > ReadCF <- paste("system(sed -i '' '/^[\r#]/d; /AGENCY/d' ", > system.file(package = "BondLab"),"/Temp_CashFlow/", > CashFlowData, ".cfm)", sep ="") > > eval(parse(text = ReadCF)) > I have managed to determine that the problem is the missing quotes but I do > not know how to get those included in the below R command.
I see no explanation of what you are attempting, but the method of including an actual quote in an R character vector element is to escape it: > cat("\"") " > nchar("\"") [1] 1 — David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.