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R: Read Byte or Character Strings

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Read Byte or Character Strings

Description

Read byte or character strings from a connection.

Usage

readBytes(con)
readChars(con, encoding = "")

Arguments

`con`	a connection object or a character string naming a file.
`encoding`	encoding to be assumed for input.

Details

Both functions first read the raw bytes from the input connection into a character string. readBytes then sets the Encoding of this to "bytes"; readChars uses iconv to convert from the specified input encoding to UTF-8 (replacing non-convertible bytes by their hex codes).

Value

For readBytes, a character string marked as "bytes". For readChars, a character string marked as "UTF-8" if containing non-ASCII characters.