[R] [OT] book on Linux scripting

[Noah Silverman]

Hi,

There are good books by O'Reilly  for both sed and awk.

That said, neither is what I would call a "complete" scripting language.

Without knowing the details of your requirements, I STRONGLY suggest 
that you learn perl.  It allows you do almost anything with data, fetch 
web pages, access almost any kind of database or file structure and more.

I use perl to fetch my data from an SQL data base, process and clean the 
data.  From there I output a nice, clean CSV file that I can read into R 
for my process.

--
Noah

On 9/3/09 3:47 PM, Erin Hodgess wrote:
> I was thinking along the lines of sed or awk, please.
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> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Noah Silverman<noah at smartmediacorp.com>  wrote:
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>> Erin,
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>> Linux supports many scripting languages.
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>> Which language are you interested in: Perl, PHP, Bash, Python, etc???
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>> --
>> Noah
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>> On 9/2/09 10:35 PM, Erin Hodgess wrote:
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>>> Dear R People:
>>>
>>> I know that this is off topic, but could anyone recommend a good book
>>> on Linux scripting please?
>>>
>>> Any help would be much appreciated!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Erin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>        
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