[R] piped output in scan?

[Thomas Lumley]

On Mon, 28 May 2001, Peter Whiting wrote:

> is there some way to execute a command and have the output piped to
> the scan command?
>
> In gnuplot I might do something like: plot "<zcat data.gz|grep 9"
>
> I would like to do something similar in R:
>
> x<-scan(filename="<zcat data.gz|grep 9")
>

Look at the examples in help(file), which seem to be similar to what you
want.

	-thomas


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