[R] Diff'ing 2 strings

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 10/01/2019 11:38 a.m., Sebastien Bihorel wrote:
> Yep, I did. Got nothing. It does not come with R 3.4.3, which is the version I can use.
> 
> R CMD Rdiff comes with this version, but it is a shell command not a R function. It is meant for diff'ing R output.

It's in the tools package, so ?tools::Rdiff should get what you want 
even in that version.  But as you note, it isn't a general purpose diff 
for character vectors, it is targeted at comparing R output files.

Duncan Murdoch

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Newmiller" <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us>
> To: r-help using r-project.org, "Sebastien Bihorel" <sebastien.bihorel using cognigencorp.com>, "Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen" <traxplayer using gmail.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 10:49:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [R] Diff'ing 2 strings
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> Just type
> 
> ?Rdiff
> 
> it is in the preinstalled packages that come with R.
> 
> On January 10, 2019 7:35:42 AM PST, Sebastien Bihorel <sebastien.bihorel using cognigencorp.com> wrote:
>>From which the diffobj package? 
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>>
>> From: "Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen" <traxplayer using gmail.com>
>> To: "Sebastien Bihorel" <sebastien.bihorel using cognigencorp.com>
>> Cc: "R mailing list" <r-help using r-project.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 2:35:15 AM
>> Subject: Re: [R] Diff'ing 2 strings
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>> On Sat, Jan 5, 2019, 14:58 Sebastien Bihorel < [
>> mailto:sebastien.bihorel using cognigencorp.com |
>> sebastien.bihorel using cognigencorp.com ] wrote:
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>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does R include an equivalent of the linux diff command?
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>>
>>
>>
>> yes.
>> ?rdiff
>>
>> /martin
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