Re: [R] Equivalent of read.table for object rather than file

2014-08-06 Thread sbihorel
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

Re: [R] Equivalent of read.table for object rather than file

2014-08-05 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
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?:

Re: [R] Equivalent of read.table for object rather than file

2014-08-05 Thread sbihorel
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? Sebastien On 05/08/2014 18:29, sbihorel wrote: >/ Hi, />/ />/ Let's say that I have a scalar character object called tmp whic

Re: [R] Equivalent of read.table for object rather than file

2014-08-05 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
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 wil

[R] Equivalent of read.table for object rather than file

2014-08-05 Thread sbihorel
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 t