[R] when to use textConnection ??

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:40 PM, skan <juanpide at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> OK, thanks
>
> Some time ago I asked in the forum how to read data from a file in order to
> use it with zoo.
> Someone suggested to use textConnection
> That's why I'm a little bit confused.
> I guess I don't need to use textConnection in order to read from files, it's
> just  for text copied from other sources (such as the clipboard)

Note that zoo does have the read.zoo function which can read a file
returning a zoo object.  See help(read.zoo) .