import data from splus
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, David James wrote:
hi, I have a somewhat similar problem. I also need to move huge, somewhat complicated objects from Splus5 to R. I need data.restore() in R (in my case it should be S4/Splus5 aware). I took a quick look at the Rstream manual, but I didn't see anything that I could easily use/modify for this problem (right?).
readSfile could be modified (see later).
Is there something out there I could use, or will data.dump()/data.restore() need to be written for R? (BTW I think this is not an R issue per se, but rather an R-S interface issue -- it is a fact that most of my collaborators use Splus.)
We are hoping to have a data.restore() S3-style. Duncan Murdoch has been working on one, hit a snag with blank lines that R-devel solves (via readLines or even scan now). (Duncan: where is this at?) Our problem is that the only firm information we have is on S3-style dump format, and that for vector and list objects with attributes. If anyone can extend this to a description of what S4 uses, we could maybe go further.
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