readr (version 1.3.1)

read_file: Read/write a complete file

Description

read_file() reads a complete file into a single object: either a character vector of length one, or a raw vector. write_file() takes a single string, or a raw vector, and writes it exactly as is. Raw vectors are useful when dealing with binary data, or if you have text data with unknown encoding.

Usage

read_file(file, locale = default_locale())
read_file_raw(file)
write_file(x, path, append = FALSE)

Arguments

file

Either a path to a file, a connection, or literal data (either a single string or a raw vector).

Files ending in .gz, .bz2, .xz, or .zip will be automatically uncompressed. Files starting with http://, https://, ftp://, or ftps:// will be automatically downloaded. Remote gz files can also be automatically downloaded and decompressed.

Literal data is most useful for examples and tests. It must contain at least one new line to be recognised as data (instead of a path) or be a vector of greater than length 1.

Using a value of clipboard() will read from the system clipboard.

locale

The locale controls defaults that vary from place to place. The default locale is US-centric (like R), but you can use locale() to create your own locale that controls things like the default time zone, encoding, decimal mark, big mark, and day/month names.

x

A data frame to write to disk

path

Path or connection to write to.

append

If FALSE, will overwrite existing file. If TRUE, will append to existing file. In both cases, if file does not exist a new file is created.

Value

read_file: A length 1 character vector. read_lines_raw: A raw vector.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
read_file(file.path(R.home("doc"), "AUTHORS"))
read_file_raw(file.path(R.home("doc"), "AUTHORS"))

tmp <- tempfile()

x <- format_csv(mtcars[1:6, ])
write_file(x, tmp)
identical(x, read_file(tmp))

read_lines(x)
# }