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Source specific lines from a file in R
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source_lines.R
#' Source specific lines in an R file
#'
#' @param file character string with the path to the file to source.
#' @param lines numeric vector of lines to source in \code{file}.
source_lines <- function(file, lines){
source(textConnection(readLines(file)[lines]))
}
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