read.ini {hyperSpec}

Read INI files

Description

read.ini reads ini files of the form

Usage

read.ini(
  con = stop("Connection con needed."),
  skip = NULL,
  encoding = "unknown"
)

Arguments

con

connection or file name

skip

number of lines to skip before first [section] starts

encoding

see readLines

Details

[section] key = value

into a list.

read.ini sanitizes the element names and tries to convert scalars and comma separated numeric vectors to numeric.

Value

a list with one element per section in the .ini file, each containing a list with elements for the key-value-pairs.

Author(s)

C. Beleites