[R] Reading blank lines

[Duncan Murdoch]

I'm writing a data.restore function like the one in S-PLUS.  One
problem:  scan() deletes any blank lines when it reads with
what=list('').  Is there a way to tell it to convert a blank line to a
0 length string element?

Duncan Murdoch
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