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Readlines reads lines of a text file and store them in a character vector.
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Example
- With a gzfile connection
con = gzfile("foo.gz")
x = readLines(con, 10)
close(con)
- readLines can be useful for reading in lines of webpages
con = url("http://www.gerardnico.com", "r")
x = readLines(con)
head(x)
[1] "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN\""
[2] " \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\">"
[3] "<html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\" xml:lang=\"en\""
[4] " lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">"
[5] "<head>"
[6] " <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />"