[Rd] Suggestion for read.table()

[Wolfgang Huber]

Hi Giles,

x = "x y z\n1 2 3\n4 5 6"
res = read.table(textConnection(x), header=TRUE)

will do. See also http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-data.html

  Best wishes
   Wolfgang Huber
   EMBL-EBI, Cambridge UK

gilescrane at verizon.net wrote:
> First, I compliment you all
> for such a useful project as R.
> 
> Suggestion:  If read.table() could
> take input from a character string,
> then one could write
> 
> raw=
> "  x   y  z
>    1   2  3
>    4   5  6
> "
> df = read.table(raw,head=TRUE)
> 
> Of course, one can
> cat() to write raw into a 
> temporary file,
> and read.table() from that file.
> However, direct reading 
> might be a good option?
> 
> Hope this is useful.
> Cordially
> Giles Crane
> gilescrane at verizon.net