berryFunctions (version 1.7.1)

compareFiles: compare two textfiles for equality

Description

returns the line numbers where two (text)files differ

Usage

compareFiles(file1, file2, nr=20, startline=1, endline=length(f1), quiet=FALSE, ... )

Arguments

file1, file2

Filenames to be read by readLines.

nr

number of results printed. DEFAULT: 20

startline, endline

start and end lines, e.g. to exclude section that is already compared.

quiet

show warnings about file lengths? DEFAULT: FALSE

...

further arguments passed to readLines

Value

• result from head

See Also

http://text-compare.com/ which I sadly only discovered after writing this function, dupes for finding duplicate lines, combineFiles

Examples

filenames <- system.file(paste0("extdata/versuch",1:2,".txt"), package="berryFunctions")
compareFiles(filenames[1], filenames[2], warn=FALSE)