Thanks to Rui, Peter and Tanvir! Peter's seems to be the fastest of the
3 suggestions so far on the little test case, but on the real data
(where x contains several thousand lines), Rui's seems best.
Duncan
On 2025-02-05 9:13 a.m., peter dalgaard wrote:
This also seems to work:
strsplit(paste(x,collapse="\n"),"\n")[[1]]
[1] "abc" "def" "" "ghi"
On 5 Feb 2025, at 14:44 , Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
If I have this object:
x <- c("abc\ndef", "", "ghi")
and I write it to a file using `writeLines(x, "test.txt")`, my text editor sees
a 5 line file:
1: abc
2: def
3:
4: ghi
5:
which is what I'd expect: the last line in the editor is empty. If I use
`readLines("test.txt")` on that file, I get the vector
c("abc", "def", "", "ghi")
and all of that is fine.
What I'm looking for is simple code that modifies x to the `readLines()`
output, without actually writing and reading it.
My first attempt doesn't work:
unlist(strsplit(x, "\n"))
because it leaves out the blank line 3. I can fix that with this ugly code:
lines <- strsplit(x, "\n")
lines[sapply(lines, length) == 0] <- list("")
lines <- unlist(lines)
Surely there's a simpler way to do this? I'd like to use just base functions,
no other packages.
Duncan Murdoch
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