hi tony---thanks. I will keep an eye on the docs (presumably streams). from a novice end-user (not developer) perspective, solving the specific snippet that I noted would be great in the documentation pages. regards, /iaw
---- Ivo Welch ([email protected]) http://www.ivo-welch.info/ J. Fred Weston Distinguished Professor of Finance Anderson School at UCLA, C519 Free Finance Textbook, http://book.ivo-welch.info/ Exec Editor, Critical Finance Review, http://www.critical-finance-review.org/ Editor and Publisher, FAMe, http://www.fame-jagazine.com/ On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 11:50 PM, Tony Kelman <[email protected]> wrote: > Ivo, > > It looks like https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/12807 would > implement the suggestion to change open(command) to return just the process > instead of a tuple, so indexing into the return from open(`gzcat > myzippedfile.gz`) would no longer be necessary. > > -Tony > > > > On Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 8:14:41 PM UTC-8, ivo welch wrote: >> >> >> apologies for bothering everyone again. is an easier solution planned >> for the following R-equivalent construct? >> >> d <- read.csv(pipe("gzcat mygzippedfile.gz")) >> >> >> where gzcat could be an arbitrary alternative decompressor or input >> filter, or is this likely to remain difficult for starters? >> >>
