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A bit late for Santa, but on my wish-list nevertheless: is there any chance that "scan" and "readLines" could be extended to take a parameter "until" or "EOF.marker", which would be a character string that (if encountered while reading) would cause the reading to stop, just as if an end-of-file had been found? [But leaving a connection open, so that subsequent calls could re...

The first four lines of code below work as normal. The fifth thorows an error: "Error in paste(theta[1], "=", 5) : object "theta" not found" x=rnorm(1000); bob=density(x); topp=5; plot(bob,xlab="", ylab="", main=substitute(paste(theta[1],"=",topp),list(topp=topp)), type="l"); plot(bob$y~bob$x,xlab="",