[R] Read Windows-like .INI files into R data structure?

[ngottlieb at marinercapital.com]

Earl:

.Ini files are, for lack of a better description, ancient.

There are old windows functions such as GetProfileString.
However you will have to make reference to load these from the windows
Kernel.dll.
Probably not worth the effort to code really old things as .ini files.

>From what I see of packages, better to change these files to XML format
see if the XML package on CRAN will solve your requirement.

The section names would be top nodes with
XML tags containing the data at the sub level. XML is really
The best way to go; get away from .ini files.

Look at the XML package, reading nodes, parsing DOM.

Neil 

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[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Earl F. Glynn
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 12:48 PM
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] Read Windows-like .INI files into R data structure?

I need to process some datasets where the configuration information was
stored in .INI-like files, i.e., text files with sections like this:

[Section1]
var1=value1
var2=value2
[Section2]
A=value3
B=value4

...

>From Google and other searches I haven't found any package, or function
within a package, that reads .INI files into an R list, or other data
structure.



Any suggestions, or do I need to write my own?

efg

Earl F. Glynn
Stowers Institute for Medical Research

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