textdata <- readLines(commandArgs()[4]) listofwords <- unlist(strsplit(x=textdata, split=" ")) flatdata <- unlist(listofwords) freqtable <- sort(table(tolower(flatdata)), decreasing=TRUE) write.table(x=cbind(freqtable, names(freqtable)), file="poefrequencies.txt", col.names=FALSE, row.names=FALSE, quote=FALSE, sep="\t")