search for: getprofilestring

...database. I sometimes find it useful to poke around on MS's site for info on things like this. Searching on ".ini files" at http://www.microsoft.com/Search/ got me some entries including http://www.microsoft.com/msdn/sdk/platforms/doc/sdk/protech/src/cc5port_23.htm which points to GetProfileString, whose entry describes how it is interpreted on different platforms and different registry settings. NT actually supports the notion of separate users, but I haven't figured out how this is supposed to be used from a program. The article http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q101/5/07.htm --...

I need to process some datasets where the configuration information was stored in .INI-like files, i.e., text files with sections like this: [Section1] var1=value1 var2=value2 [Section2] A=value3 B=value4 ... >From Google and other searches I haven't found any package, or function within a package, that reads .INI files into an R list, or other data structure. Any suggestions, or