I’m coming at awk & sed from the other side having used R daily for a few years.
R is not made for cleaning up weird text files. Yes of course it can be done but that’s like the joke that everything is within walking distance if you have enough time. I recently had to use R to fix a 50gb csv where 10 of the columns were long json strings and needed to turn that into a data frame. That experience alone made me buy a book on awk and sed
R is not made for cleaning up weird text files. Yes of course it can be done but that’s like the joke that everything is within walking distance if you have enough time. I recently had to use R to fix a 50gb csv where 10 of the columns were long json strings and needed to turn that into a data frame. That experience alone made me buy a book on awk and sed