print the first lines of files

print the first n lines of a file.

Usage

peek_head(path, n = 10, intern = FALSE)

Arguments

path

file path

n

number of lines to print

intern

a logical which indicates whether to capture the output as an R character vector or to print the output in the R console.

Examples

f <- system.file(package = "fpeek",
  "datafiles", "test-tab.csv")
peek_head(f, n = 4)
#> name	age	city
#> "Alice"	30	"New York"
#> "Bob"	25	"Los Angeles"
#> "Charlie"	35	"Chicago"
peek_head(f, n = 4, intern = TRUE)
#> [1] "name\tage\tcity"              "\"Alice\"\t30\t\"New York\"" 
#> [3] "\"Bob\"\t25\t\"Los Angeles\"" "\"Charlie\"\t35\t\"Chicago\""