Reads from a text file

This function is a drop-in replacement for readLines() from disk files. It always returns text in the UTF-8 encoding and never warns on missing EOL on the last line.

try_read_lines_enc() is a variant that returns an empty character vector on error, with a warning.

read_lines_enc(
  path,
  file_encoding = "UTF-8",
  n = -1L,
  ok = TRUE,
  skipNul = FALSE
)

try_read_lines_enc(
  path,
  file_encoding = "UTF-8",
  n = -1L,
  ok = TRUE,
  skipNul = FALSE
)

Arguments

path	Path to the file
file_encoding	The encoding to assume for the input file.
n	integer. The (maximal) number of lines to read. Negative values indicate that one should read up to the end of input on the connection.
ok	logical. Is it OK to reach the end of the connection before n > 0 lines are read? If not, an error will be generated.
skipNul	logical: should nuls be skipped?

See also

readr::read_lines() for a faster alternative.

Other file functions: transform_lines_enc(), write_lines_enc()