Regarding : "... I don't know what the 4th to last page would be called (could add another ante-, or in R just use tail(book,4))..."
According to wordsmith.org (sign up it's free, note I have no affiliation to that site) the word is "preantepenultimate". Check it out: http://wordsmith.org/words/preantepenultimate.html Yes it's off-topic. Please write your congressman. KW -- ______________________________________________ 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.