On Jan 4, 2012, at 19:21 , Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 12-01-04 12:25 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> >> >> Rather than using a sledgehammer, use showConnections(all=TRUE) to see >> all connections, and close the ones you want to (and its help page shows >> you how). > > In older versions that do give the warning, wouldn't it be sufficient to name > the textConnection, and close it explicitly? E.g. > > mydata<- read.table(con <- textConnection(mystring), header=TRUE, sep=",", > row.names="id", na.strings=" ") > > close(con) >
Or, in recent versions, use the tools designed for the purpose and do mydata <- read.table(text=mystring, ....) -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.