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file_string

Read a text file and concatenate the lines by '\n'

Description

The source code of this function should be self-explanatory.

Usage

file_string(file)

Arguments

file

Path to a text file (should be encoded in UTF-8).

Value

A character string of text lines concatenated by '\n'.

Examples

xfun::file_string(system.file("DESCRIPTION", package = "xfun"))

xfun

Miscellaneous Functions to Support Packages Maintained by 'Yihui Xie'

v0.22

MIT + file LICENSE

Authors

Yihui Xie [aut, cre, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0645-5666>), Wush Wu [ctb], Daijiang Li [ctb], Xianying Tan [ctb], Salim Brüggemann [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5329-5987>), Christophe Dervieux [ctb]

Initial release