On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Fisher Dennis <fis...@plessthan.com> wrote: > Jason > > Are you suggesting grep in R or grep in the system? If the latter, this > won't work because I need to implement this same procedure in Windows (sorry > about not mentioning this), in which grep does not exist. If in R, the > syntax is not obvious -- could you provide an example? >
Windows does have find and findstr which are similar to grep. if (.Platform$OS.type == "windows") # use findstr else # use grep >From the Windows console (not from the R console): help findstr -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
