Hi,

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, read.table() does not have the text argument in the version of R that I can use.
Do you know when was this argument introduced?

Sebastien

On 05/08/2014 18:29, sbihorel wrote:
>/  Hi,
/>/
/>/  Let's say that I have a scalar character object called tmp which stores
/>/  the entire content of an ASCII file. Is there a function that would
/>/  process tmp the same way read.table() would process the content of the
/>/  original ASCII file?
/>/
/>/  The content of tmp will come from a database, and I want to extract the
/>/  data without writing and reading to disk or without asking the database
/>/  to transform the file content into a table.
/
The equivalent is read.table.  See its 'text' argument:

      text: character string: if 'file' is not supplied and this is, then
            data are read from the value of 'text' via a text connection.
            Notice that a literal string can be used to include (small)
            data sets within R code.

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/>/  Thank you
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