One user said he would have found it useful to have textConnection be described in the posting guide since he was having problems creating a self-contained post.
I suggest the following section be added: How to post "commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code" =================================================================== The footer of every message to r-help reminds the poster that postings should include "commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code". That means that - responders can copy the code to the clipboard without further modification and paste it into their session to reproduce it. - the data must be included and - the data should be cut down to the smallest amount that will illustrate the problem. To include the data: - use dput(mydata). That will output R source code whose value is the indicated data and you can then write: mydata <- where you place the output of dput to the right of the arrow. - use textConnection. An alternative in the case of data frames is to read in a text string like this: Lines <- "A,B,C 1,2,x 3,4,y" DF <- read.table(textConnection(Lines), header = TRUE) Using textConnection(Lines) in place of a file name causes the input to be taken from the indicated string and facilitates self-contained posts. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel