[R] Search for a text string and write position related data to a file

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"Karin & Gerard Preusting" <Karin at preusting.fol.nl> writes:

> Dear all,
> 
> I just started using R today. What I need to do is find a text
> string in a (large) text file and than copy the some position
> related lines (or text) to an other text file. Is this possible with
> R?

It's hardly a typical R application, but it can be done using a fairly
straightforward while loop. See documentation for readLines,
writeLines, and grep. (On Unix-like systems, tools like awk or perl
will probably get the job done more quickly).

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