On 29/01/2024 1:09 p.m., Toby Hocking wrote:
My opinion is that the proposed feature would be greatly appreciated by users.
I had always wondered if I was the only one doing paste(readLines(f),
collapse="\n") all the time.
It would be great to have the proposed, more straightforward way to
read t
My opinion is that the proposed feature would be greatly appreciated by users.
I had always wondered if I was the only one doing paste(readLines(f),
collapse="\n") all the time.
It would be great to have the proposed, more straightforward way to
read the whole file as a string: readChar("my_file.tx
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024, Michael Chirico wrote:
I am curious why readLines() has a default (n=-1L) to read the full
file while readChar() has no default for nchars= (i.e., readChar(file)
is an error). Is there a technical reason for this?
I often[1] see code like paste(readLines(f), collapse="\n")
