get_lines {LaF} | R Documentation |
Read in specified lines from a text file
get_lines(filename, line_numbers)
filename |
character containing the filename of the file from which the lines should be read. |
line_numbers |
A vector containing the lines that should be read. |
Line numbers larger than the number of lines in the file are ignored. Missing values are returned for these.
Returns a character vector with the specified lines.
See readLines
to read in all lines a text file;
sample_lines
can be used to read in random lines.
writeLines(letters[1:20], con="tmp.csv") get_lines("tmp.csv", c(1, 10))