[R] Reading csv-data from variables

[jim holtman]

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On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:08 AM, Felix Schönbrodt <nicebread at gmx.net> wrote:
> Dear Listmembers,
>
> I'm looking for a convenient way to read csv-data which are stored in
> variables of data frames.
> I'm working with nested csv-data: one of the columns of the first table
> stores a long string containing a second csv-coded table. My problem is to
> parse that second-order csv-table.
>
> As the read.csv command requires a link to a file, I couldn't get it to read
> the data from a variable. I also tried to copy the content of the variable
> into the clipboard to use the read.csv(pipe("pbpaste"))-function, but didn't
> come to a solution ...
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks!
>
> Felix
>
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