read: Read a File

Description

These functions read a file into memory. We memory map the file for fast I/O. The file is read in as a character vector (length one for read, length n for readlines).

Usage

read(file)
readlines(file)

Arguments

file

Path to a file.

Examples

Run this code

p <- file.path( R.home(), "NEWS" )
if (file.exists(p))
  stopifnot( identical( readLines(p), readlines(p) ) )

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