On 12-Jun-03 Ted Harding wrote: > i.e. the "here document" style of redirection that has been a part > of Unix since approximately forever (if you take the origin of time > as 01/01/70 00:00). Then the above data could be read in from within > the source file by > > X<-read.table(header=TRUE,file="<< EOT") > Sex Respons > Male 1 > Male 2 > Female 3 > Female 4 > EOT
A follow-up (should have thought to mention it last time). Users of Unix troff / GNU groff may be familiar with the "inline data input" used by 'pic', where the form is: .PS <pic commands> copy thru <macroname> until "EOT" 1.1 1.2 1.3 2.1 2.2 2.3 ... 9.1 9.2 9.3 EOT <pic commands> .PE This is exactly the same idea, and the more I think about it the more attractive it seems to have this facility available in R. In fact, the most useful implementation would be that wherever file="..." could be used in a command to read from a text file, the form file="<< MARKER" could be used to read in from the following lines of the file. Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 12-Jun-03 Time: 15:20:53 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
