R - how can I dump contents of file to console output?

Question

I simply want to read a file and output it in the console. print( readLines(...) ) is the best I can do so far, but I don't want a line-by-line identifier, I just want the file as-is.

Answer 1

You could use system to call a system command.

system("cat yourfile.txt")

Answer 2

Here's an elegant way using dplyr

library(dplyr)
readLines("init.R") %>% paste0(collapse="\n") %>% cat

or with base R

cat(paste0(readLines("init.R"), collapse="\n"))

remember to replace init.R with the file path myfolder/myfile.R