Re: [R] apparent problems with the textConnection command

ame flexibility? Thanking you, Ravi - Original Message From: Mario Valle To: ravi Cc: "r-help@r-project.org" Sent: Wed, 19 May, 2010 10:48:02 Subject: Re: [R] apparent problems with the textConnection command Is not a problem of textConnection. It it how strings work. In them

Re: [R] apparent problems with the textConnection command

] apparent problems with the textConnection command Is not a problem of textConnection. It it how strings work. In them \ is the escape character, so you have to enter \\ Hope it helps         mario ravi wrote: > Dear list, > In my experiments in reading in text data, I have obtained some peculi

Re: [R] apparent problems with the textConnection command

Is not a problem of textConnection. It it how strings work. In them \ is the escape character, so you have to enter \\ Hope it helps mario ravi wrote: > Dear list, > In my experiments in reading in text data, I have obtained some peculiar > results. I would appreciate any help in

[R] apparent problems with the textConnection command

Dear list, In my experiments in reading in text data, I have obtained some peculiar results. I would appreciate any help in understanding these results. Consider the following code : ## Reading in text data from a text file ### the first line of file f1.txt contains the text :    c:\Rtools\bin;