| textConnection {base} | R Documentation |
Input and output text connections.
textConnection(object, open = "r", local = FALSE)
object |
character. A description of the connection. For an input this is an R character vector object, and for an output connection the name for the R character vector to receive the output. |
open |
character. Either "r" (or equivalently "")
for an input connection or "w" or "a" for an output
connection. |
local |
logical. Used only for output connections. If TRUE,
output is assigned to a variable in the calling environment. Otherwise
the global environment is used. |
An input text connection is opened and the character vector is copied
at time the connection object is created, and close
destroys the copy.
An output text connection is opened and creates an R character vector
of the given name in the user's workspace or in the calling environment,
depending on the value of the local argument. This object will at all
times hold the completed lines of output to the connection, and
isIncomplete will indicate if there is an incomplete
final line. Closing the connection will output the final line,
complete or not. (A line is complete once it has been terminated by
end-of-line, represented by "\n" in R.)
Opening a text connection with mode = "a" will attempt to
append to an existing character vector with the given name in the
user's workspace or the calling environment. If none is found (even
if an object exists of the right name but the wrong type) a new
character vector wil be created, with a warning.
You cannot seek on a text connection, and seek will
always return zero as the position.
A connection object of class "textConnection" which inherits
from class "connection".
As output text connections keep the character vector up to date
line-by-line, they are relatively expensive to use, and it is often
better to use an anonymous file() connection to collect
output.
On platforms where vsnprintf does not return the needed length
of output (e.g., Windows) there is a 100,000 character limit on the
length of line for output connections: longer lines will be truncated
with a warning.
Chambers, J. M. (1998)
Programming with Data. A Guide to the S Language. Springer.
[S has input text conections only.]
connections, showConnections,
pushBack, capture.output.
zz <- textConnection(LETTERS)
readLines(zz, 2)
scan(zz, "", 4)
pushBack(c("aa", "bb"), zz)
scan(zz, "", 4)
close(zz)
zz <- textConnection("foo", "w")
writeLines(c("testit1", "testit2"), zz)
cat("testit3 ", file=zz)
isIncomplete(zz)
cat("testit4\n", file=zz)
isIncomplete(zz)
close(zz)
foo
## Not run:
# capture R output: use part of example from help(lm)
zz <- textConnection("foo", "w")
ctl <- c(4.17, 5.58, 5.18, 6.11, 4.5, 4.61, 5.17, 4.53, 5.33, 5.14)
trt <- c(4.81, 4.17, 4.41, 3.59, 5.87, 3.83, 6.03, 4.89, 4.32, 4.69)
group <- gl(2, 10, 20, labels = c("Ctl", "Trt"))
weight <- c(ctl, trt)
sink(zz)
anova(lm.D9 <- lm(weight ~ group))
cat("\nSummary of Residuals:\n\n")
summary(resid(lm.D9))
sink()
close(zz)
cat(foo, sep = "\n")
## End(Not run)