[R] How to emulate perl style of reading files ?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You use connections -- see the 'R Data Import/Export Manual'.
Something like

con <- file("test1", "r")
while(length(a <- readLines(con, 1))) print(a)
close(con)

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Daren Tan wrote:

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> I tried the following, obviously it didn't work. Hope you get my point, how to do it in R ? My objective is to read a large fasta file (but not storing the entire data into memory) , and compute some sequence composition statistics.
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> while(a <- readLines("test1") != EOF) print(a)
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