"Karin & Gerard Preusting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear all, > > I just started using R today. What I need to do is find a text > string in a (large) text file and than copy the some position > related lines (or text) to an other text file. Is this possible with > R?
It's hardly a typical R application, but it can be done using a fairly straightforward while loop. See documentation for readLines, writeLines, and grep. (On Unix-like systems, tools like awk or perl will probably get the job done more quickly). -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
