Gets the pathname or a connection to the NULL device on the current platform

Gets the pathname or a connection to the NULL device on the current platform.

nullfile()
  nullcon()

Value

nullfile() returns a character string, which is "/dev/null"

except on Windows where it is "nul:".

nullcon() returns a newly opened (binary) connection to the NULL device - make sure to close it when no longer needed.

See also

In R (>= 3.6.0), there exists base::nullfile(), which is identical to R.utils::nullfile().

Author

Henrik Bengtsson