Will this work for you:


> x <- file('/tempxx.txt',open='r')
> x
  description         class          mode          text        opened
can read     can write
"/tempxx.txt"        "file"           "r"        "text"
"opened"         "yes"          "no"
> summary(x)
$description
[1] "/tempxx.txt"

$class
[1] "file"

$mode
[1] "r"

$text
[1] "text"

$opened
[1] "opened"

$`can read`
[1] "yes"

$`can write`
[1] "no"

> summary(x)$description
[1] "/tempxx.txt"
>



On 5/24/07, mel <mel@altk.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I use the functions socketConnections() and getConnection()
> which are working fine. Thanks to the authors.
>
> After opening nicely some socketConnection,
> getConnection(3) returns something like :
> description         class   mode  text    opened   can read  can write
> "->127.0.0.1:7496" "socket" "wb" "binary" "opened"   "yes"    "yes"
>
> I apologize in advance for this probably simple question,
> but how is it possible to get/read the different fields ?
> For example, how to get the "description" field ?
>
> I tried a number of things ... but alas not the right one.
>
> Thanks
>
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