Hi, parser::nlines does it in C.
Romain On 02/08/2010 03:16 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
Hi all, Is there a fast way to determine the number of lines in a file? I'm looking for something like count.lines analogous to count.fields. Hadley
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