R: Iterator over Lines of Text from a Connection

ireadLines {iterators} | R Documentation

## 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

      # 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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