[R] Fast way to determine number of lines in a file

[Romain Francois]

Hi,

parser::nlines does it in C.

Romain

On 02/08/2010 03:16 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Is there a fast way to determine the number of lines in a file?  I'm
> looking for something like count.lines analogous to count.fields.
>
> Hadley

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