[R] Read in dataset without saving it

[Joris Meys]

See ?textConnection, eg
test <-"1 2.5 3.4
1 2.3 3.1
1 2.6 3.9
2 2.9 2.8
2 2.6 2.9
2 2.7 2.9
3 2.3 3.3
3 2.4 3.0
3 2.7 3.2"
x <- textConnection(test)
read.table(x)
close(x)

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Paul Chatfield
<p.s.chatfield at reading.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> A simple question - I have a small dataset to read in and want to copy and
> paste part from Excel and paste it into an R script file without creating
> more files saving it as a .txt/.csv and then reading that in.  I want to
> read in 3 columns e.g.
> 1 2.5 3.4
> 1 2.3 3.1
> 1 2.6 3.9
> 2 2.9 2.8
> 2 2.6 2.9
> 2 2.7 2.9
> 3 2.3 3.3
> 3 2.4 3.0
> 3 2.7 3.2
>
> I thought I could use scan() but don't know how to extend it to multiple
> columns?  I thought about using colwise (plyr) but think I am making this
> more complicated than it probably should be!  Is there an easy way to do
> this?
>
> Any ideas gratefully received,
>
> Paul
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