Hi Giles, x = "x y z\n1 2 3\n4 5 6" res = read.table(textConnection(x), header=TRUE)
will do. See also http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-data.html Best wishes Wolfgang Huber EMBL-EBI, Cambridge UK [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) > > Of course, one can > cat() to write raw into a > temporary file, > and read.table() from that file. > However, direct reading > might be a good option? > > Hope this is useful. > Cordially > Giles Crane > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
