On Tuesday 14 November 2006 12:00 pm, Tom McCallum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to collapse a list into a string and then reparse it back into the
> list. Normally when I need to do this I simply use write.csv and
> read.csv, but I need to do this in memory within R rather than writing out
> to file. Are there any bespoke commands that any knows of that does
> something like this or any tips for doing this that anyone can suggest? I
> basically don't care upon the string representation, only that I can
> manipulate the list as a string and then reparse it back to a valid list
> object.
#List -> string:
#
# Put whatever you want into collapse to separate list entries
#
paste(unlist(L), collapse=",")
#String->list
strsplit(S, ",")
best
Vladimir Dergachev
>
> Many thanks for your help,
>
> Tom
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