R : writeLines : Write lines to a file

“writeLines()” method is used to write data to a file/connection.

Synatx

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

Parameter	Description
text	Represents a character vector, each member of a vector stored as separate line in a file.
con	A connection object to a file
sep	A string to be written after writing each line to a file
useBytes	It is a Boolean variable. If it is set to FALSE, character strings with marked encodings are converted to the current encoding before being passed to the connection. if useBytes is set to TRUE, then it suppresses the re-encoding of marked strings so they are passed byte-by-byte to the connection

> fileConn<-file("output.txt")
> writeLines(c("first line","second line", "third line"), fileConn)
> close(fileConn)

Run above commands in R Console, it creates “output.txt” with following data.

first line

second line

third line

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