ourMELONS/R/fgetl-fopen.R

#' @title Read line from file, removing newline characters
#' @description Equivalent function to its homonymous Matlab equivalent.
#' @param file character vector to be read, usually an output of `fopen()`
#' @return If the file is nonempty, then fgetl returns tline as a character
#' vector. If the file is empty and contains only the end-of-file marker, then
#' fgetl returns tline as a numeric value -1.
#' @author Waldir Leoncio
#' @seealso fopen
fgetl <- function(file) {
  # ==========================================================================
  # Validation
  # ==========================================================================
  if (length(file) <= 1) {
    return(-1)
  }
  # ==========================================================================
  # Returning file minus the first line
  # ==========================================================================
  out <- file[-1]
  return(out)
}

#' @title Open file
#' @description Open a text file
#' @param filename Path and name of file to be open
#' @return The same as `readLines(filename)`
#' @author Waldir Leoncio
#' @seealso fgetl
fopen <- function(filename) readLines(filename)