Hi all,
I want to modify a large number of text files (ca 4000) by replacing a
value found on a particular line in them with a value from an R object.
For a single file I would normally use:
con<-file ("foo.txt", open="r+")
content<-readLines(con)
content[n]<-"test"
writeLines(content,con)
close(con)
For repeating this for several files I can write a for loop around this.
However, my problem with this is that it is rather slow. I am therefore
wondering if there is any other way to write to multiple connections in
a similar way as one can e.g. write to a large number of rows in a
matrix simultaneously?
(Note that seek() is not so practical for me since the number of bytes
before the specific line varies between the files, therefore I use
reanLines() and match the right line instead.)
My Systems:
OS: Windows Server 2003 & Linux Red Hat (interchangeably)
R version: 2.7.2
Thanks for any suggestions!
ooo
Jafet Andersson
Eawag - The Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Ueberlandstrasse 133
P.O. Box 611
CH-8600 Duebendorf
Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0)44 823 5358
Fax: +41 (0)44 823 5028
http://www.eawag.ch/index_EN
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