Hello, is there a way to pass a connection to a file in a zipped archive as
argument (instead of a file name of unzipped file) to shell command "cut". In
general, is it possible to pipe output of a R function to a shell command? How?
I want to do something like:
z = unz("zipArchive.zip", "fileASCII.ASC")
# open connection
open(z)
# cut lines of the ASCII file in zipped archive at specific postions and send
results to another file.
shell("cut -c2-3,5-8 z > test2.dat")
Anupam.
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