On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> First, I compliment you all
> for such a useful project as R.
>
> Suggestion: If read.table() could
> take input from a character string,
> then one could write
>
> raw=
> " x y z
> 1 2 3
> 4 5 6
> "
> df = read.table(raw,head=TRUE)
'raw' is the name of a function in R, so not a good choice.
> Of course, one can
> cat() to write raw into a
> temporary file,
> and read.table() from that file.
Yes, we have anonymous file connections for that.
> However, direct reading might be a good option?
See ?textConnection for how to do this.
inp <- " x y z
1 2 3
4 5 6
"
read.table(textConnection(inp), header=TRUE)
The most common case is wanting to paste in, and we have "clipboard" for
that (at least on Windows on X11: it would be a nice addition on Aqua).
--
Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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