In rbsa: Ancillary Functions for R Programming

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Examples

from a text with convenient tags returns a named list. Labelling tags must be in first position of the lines, possibly after removing some precised character.

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  list4text(text,content=c(1,length(text)),ccom="#",
            lndel=c("{","}"),lvdel=c("<<",">>"))

`text`	A character vector containing the text from which to extract the list.
`content`	Indicates which components of text to consider. Usually numeric(2) to indicate the interval of lines to consider. When numeric(1), only this line. When 0 or diff(content)<0 a list(0) is returned.
`ccom`	Character(s) at the beginning of lines to possibly be removed. When character(0) no removing is performed.
`lndel`	Starting and ending delimiters for the name of the item (at the beginning of the line).
`lvdel`	Starting and ending delimiters for the description of the item.

Useless lines can exist before and after the list, and also between the list items.

A named list.

 
  list4text(c("{a}<<Il etait une fois>>", 
  "{b}<<   un petit et rouge chaperon>>{c}", 
  "<< pas bon>>", 
  "{d}    <<et le m'echant loup...>>")) 
  list4text(c("{a}","<<","pour voir",">>"));