On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 07:42:50PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can anyone point out why this is not working?
>
> y<-read.table(pipe(' awk '{ n = $1; sub( ".*" $1 " " ,"") ; while ( n-- )
^
> print }' temp.txt '))
^
one problem is that your single-quoted R string contains single quotes
which I've pointed to with "^" above. You probably intend these single
quotes to be part of the awk command line, but R can\'t know that unless
you escape them... ;-)
In the future, can you please describe explicitly how it "is not working",
and also give a bit more context, such as a few lines of description of
the content of temp.txt, and why you're trying to use awk (rather than R
itself) to achieve whatever you're trying to achieve?
Best regards, Jan
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