Read INI files. — read.ini • hyperSpec

read.ini reads ini files of the form

[section]
key = value

into a list.

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 `base::readLines()`

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

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

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