[R] Tools for data preparation?

[Liaw, Andy]

My choices are (in the order of my preference):

- use connections and readLines()/strsplit()/etc. in R to process the file a
chunk at a time

- use cut/paste/grep/etc., perhaps within pipe() in R

- use awk, perhaps within pipe() in R

- Python is my last resort, as I'm not familiar with it

The first preference is to do it all in R, mostly for the reason that I can
keep track of what was done all in one place (the R script or function).

Andy

> From: David Mitchell
> 
> Hello list,
> 
> I'm regularly in the position where I have to do a lot of data
> manipulation, in order to get the data I have into a format R is happy
> with.  This manipulation would generally be in one of two forms:
> - getting data from e.g. text log files into a tabular format
> - extracting sensible sample data from a very large data set (i.e. too
> large for R to handle)
> 
> In general, I use Perl or Python to do the task; I'm curious as to
> what others use when they hit the same problem.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Dave Mitchell
> 
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