R help - Jun 2008 - Scan document including "\n"

How do you read in a whole file while preserving end of line "\n"
characters?
Basically, read in a whole file as one string.

Ex:
<XML>
<TAG>
</TAG>
</XML> 

After this file is read into a variable, it should really look like
"<XML>\n<TAG>\n</TAG>\n</XML>\n"


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Hi there,

Try this:

your.file=read.table(textConnection("<XML>
<TAG>
</TAG>
</XML>"),header=FALSE)

paste(your.file$V1,"\n",collapse="",sep="")
[1] "<XML>\n<TAG>\n</TAG>\n</XML>\n"


HTH,

Jorge

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:01 PM, ppatel3026
<pratik.patel@us.rothschild.com>
wrote:
>
> How do you read in a whole file while preserving end of line "\n"
> characters?
> Basically, read in a whole file as one string.
>
> Ex:
> <XML>
> <TAG>
> </TAG>
> </XML>
>
> After this file is read into a variable, it should really look like
> "<XML>\n<TAG>\n</TAG>\n</XML>\n"
>
>
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