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iterators (version 1.0.14)

ireadLines: Iterator over Lines of Text from a Connection

Description

Returns an iterator over the lines of text from a connection. It is a wrapper around the standard readLines function.

Usage

ireadLines(con, n=1, ...)

Arguments

con

a connection object or a character string.

n

integer. The maximum number of lines to read. Negative values indicate that one should read up to the end of the connection. The default value is 1.

…

passed on to the readLines function.

Value

The line reading iterator.

See Also

readLines

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
  # create an iterator over the lines of COPYING
  it <- ireadLines(file.path(R.home(), 'COPYING'))
  nextElem(it)
  nextElem(it)
  nextElem(it)
# }

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