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Hello Rubyists, I am a bit stumped here. I want to extend the ''load_file'' method in the YAML module. Following along with the PickAxe example of making old methods do new things, I try this in irb: >> module YAML >> alias_method :orig_load_f, :load_file >> def load_file(*args) >> contents = orig_load_f(*args) >>

...timize the memory allocation), load_file1 <- function(f){ ## ask wc the number of words n <- scan(textConnection(system(paste("wc -w ", f), intern=TRUE)), what=list(integer(), character()), quiet=TRUE)[[1]] all <- scan(f, nmax=n, quiet=TRUE) invisible(all) } load_file2 <- function(f){ ## ask wc the number of characters n <- scan(textConnection(system(paste("wc -m ", f), intern=TRUE)), what=list(integer(), character()), quiet=TRUE)[[1]] tc <- textConnection(readChar(f, n)) all <- scan(tc, quiet=TRUE, multi.line = FALSE)...