R help - Apr 2008 - Question Regarding 'pipe'

Can anyone point out why this is not working?

y<-read.table(pipe('  awk '{ n = $1; sub( ".*" $1 "
" ,"") ; while ( n-- )
print }'  temp.txt '))

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On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 07:42:50PM -0500, born.to.b.wyld at gmail.com
wrote:
> Can anyone point out why this is not working?
> 
> y<-read.table(pipe('  awk '{ n = $1; sub( ".*" $1
" " ,"") ; while ( n-- )
                            ^
> print }'  temp.txt '))
         ^

one problem is that your single-quoted R string contains single quotes
which I've pointed to with "^" above. You probably intend these
single
quotes to be part of the awk command line, but R can\'t know that unless
you escape them...  ;-)

In the future, can you please describe explicitly how it "is not
working",
and also give a bit more context, such as a few lines of description of
the content of temp.txt, and why you're trying to use awk (rather than R
itself) to achieve whatever you're trying to achieve?

Best regards, Jan
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