On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:40:54PM -0500, Julio Sergio Santana wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to use pipes in R. By now, I could launch the linux command "wc"
> (to count words from a text), but
> I don't know how to capture the results, say in a vector of chars...
> Here is the R code I'm trying:
>
> :> f <- pipe("wc", open="w")
> :> writeLines(c("uno dos tres", "cuatro cinco", "seis"), f)
> :> close(f)
> : 3 6 31
>
> The result is just displayed but I couldn't put the result into a R
> variable.
> Do you have any comments on this?
Hi.
Try the following.
writeLines(c("uno dos tres", "cuatro cinco", "seis"), "some_file.txt")
out <- system("wc some_file.txt", intern=TRUE)
out
[1] " 3 6 31 some_file.txt"
Here, out is a character variable.
Hope this helps.
Petr Savicky.
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