What you wrote was " it is literally impossible for the function to
accept a connection that has been opened with arbitrary mode and
provide that kind of flexibility in line end handling."
Personally I think that readLines has NO business whatever reading
anything from a binary mode connection.
I a
If you reply to me then you should respond to what I wrote, not something else.
My point was that the software architecture of having readLines read characters
from an abstract connection stream that may have been opened in either binary
or text mode does not allow the readLines function to ena
Hi all,
On Windows I'm seeing the following:
> tf <- tempfile()
> writeBin(charToRaw("\r\r\n"), tf)
> readLines(file(tf, "r"))
[1] ""
> readLines(file(tf, "rb"))
[1] "" "" ""
The former matches Guido's observation of a disappearing line (also on Windows),
the latter seems to correspond to Duncan
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