[R] character to numeric conversion

Robin Hankin r.hankin at noc.soton.ac.uk
Mon Mar 19 12:30:18 CET 2007


On 19 Mar 2007, at 11:20, Robin Hankin wrote:

> Hello everybody
>
> thanks for the tips.
>
> I *think* this should be the same thread....
>
>
> The manpage for system() says that lines of over 8095
> characters will be split.  This is causing me problems.
> How do I get round the 8095 character limit?
>


Er, just paste the output together using paste(..., collapse = "")

The split is "clean" so concatenating the lines will not lose
any characters.


HTH






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Robin Hankin
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