peek_head: print the first lines of files

In fpeek: Check Text Files Content at a Glance

print the first lines of files

Description

print the first n lines of a file.

Usage

peek_head(path, n = 10, intern = FALSE)

Arguments

path	file path
n	number of lines to print
intern	a logical which indicates whether to capture the output as an R character vector or to print the output in the R console.

Examples

f <- system.file(package = "fpeek",
  "datafiles", "test-tab.csv")
peek_head(f, n = 4)
peek_head(f, n = 4, intern = TRUE)

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