[R] File reading.

[Laurent Gautier]

Laurent Gautier			CBS, Building 208, DTU
PhD. Student			D-2800 Lyngby,Denmark	
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On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Randall Skelton wrote:

> My problems are that R seems to be tied to the line numbers on which data
> is found and that the scan function doesn't remember where it last was...
> Is there some C-like fopen/fread construct that I am missing?


The use of connections could be something worth being tried.

The command 'readLines' reads lines from a connection (and in this sense
'remembers' where it last was...)

try 

help(file)
help(readLines)


Hopin' it helps,



Laurent

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