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Henrik Bengtsson

","aliases":["nullfile","nullcon"],"keywords":["programming","file"],"description":"

Gets the pathname or a connection to the NULL device on the current platform.

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Henrik Bengtsson

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nullfile() returns a character string, which is \"/dev/null\"

\n\n\n

except on Windows where it is \"nul:\".

nullcon() returns a newly opened (binary) connection to\n the NULL device - make sure to close it when no longer needed.

","seealso":"

In R (>= 3.6.0), there exists base::nullfile(), which is\n identical to R.utils::nullfile().

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