It works with paste, but I forgotten the close(fConn) after the writeLines.
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Paul Smith <phh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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