Try this;

fConn <- file('test.txt', 'r+')
Lines <- readLines(fConn)
writeLines(paste("Text at beginning of file", Lines, sep = "\n"),
           con = fConn)

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Paul Smith <phhs80@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I have a piece of text that I want to append to a text file at the
> beginning of the text file.
>
> I have thought about using cat() with the option 'append=T', but the
> appending, in this case, is done at the bottom of the text file. Any
> ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul
>
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