Message-ID: <CAAmySGO6CBjUzDRqV96Lp9n=MpTjarEiyqTCaJkD-MkLdJ0_YQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2012-09-15T08:07:35Z
From: R. Michael Weylandt
Subject: tail a file in R
In-Reply-To: <CACAe89wt6hiRN2jcVE7MHn18bvYE1rDodBH0QvYRWc1XxZzn7g@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Jim Green
<student.northwestern at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> not sure tail in R can tail a file as documented here
> http://rss.acs.unt.edu/Rdoc/library/R.basic/html/tail.html
>
> but when I tried my R version 2.14.2 it doesn't work.
>
Note that that "tail" is not the same as utils::tail that is available
to you by default. Rather that is a help page from the "R.basic"
package (see the top left corner) which you will need to install and
load.
Cheers,
Michael