R help - Oct 2007 - grep in filename

Is there any version of grep that gets information from the filename?

For example:
x <- "myfile.txt"
y <- grep.file("my text", x)
should return in y the lines with my text.

I know that
x <- "myfile.txt"
y <- grep("my text", readLines(x))
will probably work, but maybe there's a more direct (and
less memory hungry) option.

Alberto Monteiro

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> Is there any version of grep that gets information from the filename?
>
> For example:
> x <- "myfile.txt"
> y <- grep.file("my text", x)
> should return in y the lines with my text.
>
> I know that
> x <- "myfile.txt"
> y <- grep("my text", readLines(x))
> will probably work, but maybe there's a more direct (and
> less memory hungry) option.
Let your system utilities handle the burden.

For *NIXes, this approach:

 	http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/101103.html

and Windows XP

 	http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/101220.html

Chuck
>
> Alberto Monteiro
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