[R] How to read contents of a text file into a single string?

[Paul Hiemstra]

Dimitri Shvorob wrote:
> ... Both readLines() and scan() produce a number_of_lines x 1 vector; trying
> paste(s, collapse = NULL) leaves it unaffected. How can I concatenate vector
> elements (lines) into a single string? 
> Thank you.
>   
try collapse = ''

cheers,
Paul

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