Get write_lines() to write Windows new lines (CRLF)

[Pablo-Leon]

I'm aware of Issue #87 on read_csv(), and it's correct that write functions use the same terminator, but sometimes you need to write a file for another program, that only understands CRLF lines.

So I would like to be able to specify a CRLF line terminator as an option on write functions.

Meanwhile, the hackish way :
> write_lines(paste0(vData, "\r"), filePath))

Thanks for the great package.

• Pablo

[jimhester]

I think just using base::writeLines() would be the way to go if you really want CRLF terminated lines.

[Pablo-Leon]

Haha , forgot about base::* !

But base::writeLines() lack an EOL parameter so it will work while running on windows, not in linux.
Keeping my hack 'cause it works and is still faster (33%).

thanks

• Pablo

[jimhester]

You can do the following to work the same regardless of platform.

con <- file("xyz", mode = "wb")
writeLines(x, sep = "\r\n")
close(con)

[Pablo-Leon]

thanks!

[mr-majkel]

Hi, @jimhester if I may suggest something - I would not use "sep" name for argument about end of line mark. "sep" is traditionally used in base R functions to state what is a separator between columns. Maybe we could "eol" instead?

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