Re: [R] Querying RData Files, SQL style?

2011-07-15 Thread Bhushan, Vipul
00 KB each) only takes many seconds and not lots of minutes or hours. -Original Message- From: David Winsemius [mailto:dwinsem...@comcast.net] Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 11:42 AM To: Bhushan, Vipul Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Querying RData Files, SQL style? On Jul 15, 2011

Re: [R] Querying RData Files, SQL style?

2011-07-15 Thread Bhushan, Vipul
Murphy [mailto:djmu...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 2:10 PM To: Bhushan, Vipul Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Querying RData Files, SQL style? Hi: If you load the data into R, there is a package called sqldf that allows one to apply SQL syntax to an R data frame. Is that

[R] Querying RData Files, SQL style?

2011-07-15 Thread Bhushan, Vipul
Hello. Is there a package or functionality available somewhere which will allow for complex searches (such as what SQL can do) of collections of RData files? Search capability within a given RData file at a time (which could be put in a loop) would be good, but the capability to perform joins to

[R] Using GSUB to obtain a printing "\"

2011-05-05 Thread Bhushan, Vipul
Hello. I'd like to be able to print variable strings which contain "\" as-is, without interpreting (for example) "abcde\nuvxyz" as having an embedded newline (or whatever other escaped instruction). To do this, I've tried gsub, and here's some of my output (I've tried all kinds of variations t