Hello, is there a way to pass a connection to a file in a zipped archive as argument (instead of a file name of unzipped file) to shell command "cut". In general, is it possible to pipe output of a R function to a shell command? How?
I want to do something like: z = unz("zipArchive.zip", "fileASCII.ASC") # open connection open(z) # cut lines of the ASCII file in zipped archive at specific postions and send results to another file. shell("cut -c2-3,5-8 z > test2.dat") Anupam. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.