parseTemplate: Parse a template

In dnegrey/miscTools: R package with miscellaneous tools

Description

parseTemplate() reads fileIn and uses sprintf to make string replacements.

Usage

parseTemplate(fileIn, ...)

Arguments

fileIn	path to template file (quoted string)
...	objects to use as string replacements

Value

A string representing the contents of fileIn after the specified replacements have been made. As the string is a length one character vector, new lines (\n) have been inserted accordingly.

See Also

sprintf

Examples

x <- c("My %s favorite", "%s is a %s.")
write(x, "x.txt")
system("more x.txt")
y <- parseTemplate("x.txt", "least", "animal", "cat")
print(y)
write(y, "y.txt")
system("more y.txt")
file.remove("x.txt", "y.txt")

dnegrey/miscTools documentation built on May 3, 2019, 2:57 p.m.