On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Laurent Rhelp wrote:

[...]

> I had had to modify the line below to allow for the connexion :
>
>   temp <- readLines(file(file.path(dirdata, "initial", i)))

You do not need the file() here.

> I didn't understand that readLines read all the file in one go, I
> understood that it read only one line !..so I did a loop on the lines of
> every file which is not necessary.

Please do read the help page for readLines, (very carefully before
posting). It says:

   readLines(con = stdin(), n = -1, ok = TRUE, warn = TRUE)

   con: a connection object or a character string.

    n: integer. The (maximal) number of lines to read. Negative
      values indicate that one should read up to the end of the
      connection.

   If the 'con' is a character string, the function calls 'file' to
   obtain a file connection which is opened for the duration of the
   function call.


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