Re: [R] Getting many substrings but only loading the original string one time.

2011-04-11 Thread Jonathan
Duncan, That would appear to be exactly what I was looking for! I will follow up if I have trouble after implementing the script this'll be used in. I suppose I'd be wondering whether R is a reasonably fast language to use for this type of task (given the very large long string size, and the

Re: [R] Getting many substrings but only loading the original string one time.

2011-04-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11/04/2011 3:48 PM, Jonathan wrote: Hi All, I'm looking for a way to get many substrings from a longer string and then stitch them together. But, since the longer string is really, really long (like 250 MB long), I don't want to do this in a loop and load and re-load the longer string ma

[R] Getting many substrings but only loading the original string one time.

2011-04-11 Thread Jonathan
Hi All, I'm looking for a way to get many substrings from a longer string and then stitch them together. But, since the longer string is really, really long (like 250 MB long), I don't want to do this in a loop and load and re-load the longer string many times. Does anybody have an idea? May