R help - Apr 2015 - read.table with a "memory connection"

Hi,

Is there a way to create "memory connections" in R which are valid 
connections to read.table (and associated function)? By saying "memory 
connection" I refer to something like a connection created from a simple 
character object (of length 1) - instead of having the content in a 
physical file just have it in an ordinary R object. More or less the 
equivalent to the std::istringstream class in C++.

thanks,
Thomas

On 01/04/2015 09:52, Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to create "memory connections" in R which are
valid
> connections to read.table (and associated function)? By saying "memory
> connection" I refer to something like a connection created from a
simple
> character object (of length 1) - instead of having the content in a
> physical file just have it in an ordinary R object. More or less the
> equivalent to the std::istringstream class in C++.
I believe you are looking for 'text connections':  see the
'text'
argument to read.table() and ?textConnection.


-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK

On 01/04/2015 11:06, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On 01/04/2015 09:52, Thomas wrote:
>> Hi,
>
> I believe you are looking for 'text connections':  see the
'text'
> argument to read.table() and ?textConnection.
>
Thanks, that's it !