writeLines {base} | R Documentation

## Write Lines to a Connection

### Description

Write text lines to a connection.

### Usage

    writeLines(text, con = stdout(), sep = "\n")

### Arguments

`text` | A character vector
`con` | A connection object or a character string.
`sep` | character. A string to be written to the connection after each line of text.

### Details

If the `con` is a character string, the functions call `file` to obtain an file connection which is opened for the duration of the function call.

If the connection is open it is written from its current position. If it is not open, it is opened for the duration of the call and then closed again.

Normally `writeLines` is used with a text connection, and the default separator is converted to the normal separator for that platform (LF on Unix/Linux, CRLF on Windows, CR on Classic MacOS). For more control, open a binary connection and specify the precise value you want written to the file in `sep`. For even more control, use `writeChar` on a binary connection.

### See Also

`connections`, `writeChar`, `writeBin`, `readLines`, `cat`

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