Submitted by: Richard Cotton; Assigned to: Nobody; R-Forge link
read.table in the utils package has a text argument that takes a string and converts it to a textConnection object, allowing data to be specified in the source file rather than in its own file. For example,
read.table(
text =
"x y
1 a
2 b
3 c",
header = TRUE
)
This is really useful for providing toy datasets for R-help or Stack Overflow (or wherever).
It would be great if fread supported such a feature.
read.table also allows its file argument to be a connection object. This is a less important feature, but it should be trivial to implement once the previous feature is added.
Submitted by: Richard Cotton; Assigned to: Nobody; R-Forge link
read.table in the utils package has a text argument that takes a string and converts it to a textConnection object, allowing data to be specified in the source file rather than in its own file. For example,
read.table(
text =
"x y
1 a
2 b
3 c",
header = TRUE
)
This is really useful for providing toy datasets for R-help or Stack Overflow (or wherever).
It would be great if fread supported such a feature.
read.table also allows its file argument to be a connection object. This is a less important feature, but it should be trivial to implement once the previous feature is added.