[R] character to numeric conversion

[Robin Hankin]

Hello everybody

thanks for the tips.

I *think* this should be the same thread....


The manpage for system() says that lines of over 8095
characters will be split.  This is causing me problems.
How do I get round the 8095 character limit?


Simple toy example follows:



jj <- system("echo 4 | awk '{for(i=1;i<100;i++){printf(\"%s,\", 
$1)}}'| sed -e \"s/,$//\"",intern=T)


This is  fine.  But .. . .


jj <- system("echo 4 | awk '{for(i=1;i<10000;i++){printf(\"%s,\", 
$1)}}'| sed -e \"s/,$//\"",intern=T)



has  "jj"  split into three bits, which is upsetting my call.  In my  
application
the split occurs in the middle of a multi-digit number, which messes up
my conversion to numeric?







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Robin Hankin
Uncertainty Analyst
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