[R] Reading csv-data from variables

[Felix Schönbrodt]

Thanks for the hint - with a little adaptation (employing  
as.character) I could solve my problem:

c <- read.csv2(textConnection(as.character(dat[7,8])))

Best wishes,
Felix



Am 17.06.2008 um 12:04 schrieb jim holtman:

> ?textConnection
>
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:08 AM, Felix Schönbrodt  
> <nicebread at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Dear Listmembers,
>>
>> I'm looking for a convenient way to read csv-data which are stored in
>> variables of data frames.
>> I'm working with nested csv-data: one of the columns of the first  
>> table
>> stores a long string containing a second csv-coded table. My  
>> problem is to
>> parse that second-order csv-table.
>>
>> As the read.csv command requires a link to a file, I couldn't get  
>> it to read
>> the data from a variable. I also tried to copy the content of the  
>> variable
>> into the clipboard to use the read.csv(pipe("pbpaste"))-function,  
>> but didn't
>> come to a solution ...
>>
>> Any suggestions? Thanks!
>>
>> Felix
>>
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