On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Tomas Kalibera wrote:
is it possible to create my own connection which I could use with
Yes. In a sense, all the connections are custom connections written by someone.
read.table or scan ? I would like to create a connection that would read from multiple files in sequence (like if they were concatenated), possibly with an option to skip first n lines of each file. I would like to avoid using platform specific scripts for that... (currently I invoke "/bin/cat" from R to create a concatenation of all those files).
I would use pipes, but a pure R solution is to process the files to an anonymous file() connection and then read that.
However, what is wrong with reading a file at a time and combining the results in R using rbind?
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