writeLines               package:base               R Documentation

Write Lines to a Connection

Description:

     Write text lines to a connection.

Usage:

     writeLines(text, con = stdout(), sep = "\n")

Arguments:

    text: A character vector

     con: A connection object or a character string.

     sep: character. A string to be written to the connection after
          each line of text.

Details:

     If the `con' is a character string, the functions call `file' to
     obtain an file connection which is opened for the duration of the
     function call.

     If the connection is open it is written from its current position.
     If it is not open, it is opened for the duration of the call and
     then closed again.

     Normally `writeLines' is used with a text connection, and the
     default separator is converted to the normal separator for that
     platform (LF on Unix/Linux, CRLF on Windows, LF on Macintosh). 
     For more control, open a binary connection and specify the precise
     value you want written to the file in `sep'.  For even more
     control, use `writeChar' on a binary connection.

See Also:

     `connections', `writeChar', `readLines', `cat'

