[R] Programcode and data in the same textfile

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Barry Rowlingson wrote:

> 
> >       file = tmpfile, sep="\n")
> >   close(tmpfile)
> >   read.table(tmpfilename, header = TRUE)
> > 
> 
>   Eurgh! Does R clean up tempfiles by itself?

Yes!

It's a better idea to use an anonymous file connection, opened for reading 
and writing.  Then there is no cleaning-up to be done.

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