[R] Output to connections

[Adelchi Azzalini]

On Tuesday 20 May 2003 13:03, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> In R '\' has to be escaped, i.e. '\\' which means '\\' has to be '\\\\'
> (this was probably there before the help page was generated!?)
>
> The following works
>
>   ## convert decimal point to comma in output, using a pipe (Unix)
>   zz <- pipe(paste("sed s/\\\\./,/ >", "outfile"), "w")
>   cat(format(round(rnorm(100), 4)), sep = "\n", file = zz)
>   close(zz)
>   ## now look at the output file:
>   file.show("outfile", delete.file = TRUE)

Yes, it works, thanks

Adelchi

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Dipart.Scienze Statistiche, Università di Padova, Italia
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