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Message-ID: <x2zml5apv0.fsf_-_@turmalin.kubism.ku.dk>
Date: 2006-02-06T07:49:39Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: Embedding datasets, was Re:  srt --- slope text with function?
In-Reply-To: <43E6A4CD.8080800@stats.uwo.ca>

Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> writes:

> On 2/5/2006 4:28 PM, ivo welch wrote:

> > * has it now become possible to embed sample data sets in R code?  (I
> > asked this a while back, but there were nly kludges, no standard
> > "pretty" solutions.)
> 
> I don't understand the question.  dump() produces R code that can 
> reconstruct a dataset; is that what you want?

Or dput(). You can also read from a text connection, using
constructions like

data <- read.table(
textConnection(
"a b c d
2 1 3 5
0 2 4 1
1 2 3 4"), header=TRUE)

(The quotes have to placed as shown, or you get extra blank lines).
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