Read functions
Arguments
- file
Either a path to a file, a connection, or literal data (either a single string or a raw vector).
Files ending in
.gz,.bz2,.xz, or.zipwill be automatically uncompressed. Files starting withhttp://,https://,ftp://, orftps://will be automatically downloaded. Remote gz files can also be automatically downloaded and decompressed.Literal data is most useful for examples and tests. To be recognised as literal data, the input must be either wrapped with
I(), be a string containing at least one new line, or be a vector containing at least one string with a new line.Using a value of
clipboard()will read from the system clipboard.