Count rows in a text file

This is a quick way of counting lines in a text file, to ensure the final # of rows in the loaded dataset is correct: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23456170/get-the-number-of-lines-in-a-text-file-using-r

count_lines_textfile(file_path)

Arguments

file_path	character: Path to file

See also

Other functions for validating license data: check_dups, summary_churn, summary_initial, summary_sale

Examples

x <- matrix(1:10, ncol = 5)
f <- tempfile("test-matrix")
write(x, f)
readLines(f)
#> [1] "1 2 3 4 5"  "6 7 8 9 10"
count_lines_textfile(f)
#> [1] 2
unlink(f)