"Tom McCallum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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? Er, perhaps you should send that sentence off to Iain McC.[*], so that we can find out what killed it. ;-) > 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. You might want to investigate deparse() and parse(). [*] http://www.johnhannah.net/mccallum.html -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
