Thanks, Henrique.
I think you mean the following:
fConn <- file('test.txt', 'r+')
Lines <- readLines(fConn)
writeLines(c("Text at beginning of file\n", Lines), con = fConn)
close(fConn)
(With paste(), it does not work.)
Paul
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Henrique Dallazuanna<www...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Try this;
>
> fConn <- file('test.txt', 'r+')
> Lines <- readLines(fConn)
> writeLines(paste("Text at beginning of file", Lines, sep = "\n"),
> con = fConn)
>
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Paul Smith <phh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I have a piece of text that I want to append to a text file at the
>> beginning of the text file.
>>
>> I have thought about using cat() with the option 'append=T', but the
>> appending, in this case, is done at the bottom of the text file. Any
>> ideas?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Paul
>>
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