#' @title Source Lines from a File #' @description Sources specific lines from a file #' #' @param file A character string giving the path to the file to be sourced. #' @param lines A numeric vector of line numbers to be sourced. #' @param ... Additional arguments to be passed to \code{\link{source}}. #' #' @return The result of \code{\link{source}}. #' @seealso \code{\link[gist by christophergandrud]{https://gist.github.com/christophergandrud/1eb4e095974204b12af9}} #' #' @examples #' test_file <- tempfile(fileext = ".R") #' writeLines(c("# Line 1", "2+2", "# Line 3"), test_file) #' source_lines(test_file, 1:2, echo=TRUE) #' #' @export #' source_lines <- function(file, lines, ...){ source(textConnection(readLines(file)[lines]), ...) }