Re: [R] read.table with a memory connection

2015-04-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 01/04/2015 09:52, Thomas wrote: Hi, Is there a way to create memory connections in R which are valid connections to read.table (and associated function)? By saying memory connection I refer to something like a connection created from a simple character object (of length 1) - instead of

[R] read.table with a memory connection

2015-04-01 Thread Thomas
Hi, Is there a way to create memory connections in R which are valid connections to read.table (and associated function)? By saying memory connection I refer to something like a connection created from a simple character object (of length 1) - instead of having the content in a physical file

Re: [R] read.table with a memory connection

2015-04-01 Thread Thomas
On 01/04/2015 11:06, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On 01/04/2015 09:52, Thomas wrote: Hi, I believe you are looking for 'text connections': see the 'text' argument to read.table() and ?textConnection. Thanks, that's it ! __ R-help@r-project.org