read a specific number of rows from a text file

Source: R/utils.R

read a specific number of rows from a text file

read_rows(
  input_file = NULL,
  read_delimiter = "\n",
  rows = 100,
  write_2file = ""
)

Arguments

input_file

a character string specifying a valid path to a text file
read_delimiter

a character string specifying the row delimiter of the text file
rows

a numeric value specifying the number of rows to read
write_2file

either "" or a character string specifying a valid output file to write the subset of the input file

Examples


library(textTinyR)

# txfl = read_rows(input_file = 'input.txt', rows = 100)