Question

Is it possible to print the content of a file (supporting extensions like r,tex,txt,rnw) using R?

Reproducible file:

sink('myFile')
cat('\nThis is some text')
cat('\n')
cat('\nEnd of file')
sink()

Now I am looking for a function in R that prints the content of R as…

>PRINT_FILE_CONTENT('myFile')
This is some text
End of file
>

I hope I am clear. I will appreciate any help?

Answer 1

This seems to work:

cat(readLines("myFile"),sep="\n")

although I did get

Warning message:
In readLines("myFile") : incomplete final line found on 'myFile'

at the end … you could wrap it in suppressWarnings() if you like.