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\name{read-lines}
\alias{read.lines}
\title{Read from a text file line by line}
\description{
Reads from a text file line by line. Wrapper to readLines()
function.
}
\usage{
read.lines(con=stdin(), n=-1, ok=TRUE, warn=FALSE, encoding="unknown")
}
\arguments{
\item{con}{
a connection object or a character string.
}
\item{n}{
an integer, the (maximal) number of lines to read.
Negative values indicate that one should read up
to the end of input on the connection.
}
\item{ok}{
a logical, is it OK to reach the end of the connection
before n > 0 lines are read? If not, an error will be
generated.
}
\item{warn}{
a logical, warn if a text file is missing a final EOL.
The default is FALSE, note different from function
\code{readLines}.
}
\item{encoding}{
a character string, the encoding to be assumed for input
strings.
}
}
\value{
the downloaded text. Same output as readLines() function.
}
\references{
Diethelm Wuertz, Yohan Chalabi, and Andrew Ellis, (2010);
\emph{Financial Market Data for R/Rmetrics},
Rmetrics eBook, Rmetrics Association and Finance Online, Zurich,
www.rmetrics.org.
}
\keyword{programming}
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