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# stri_read_raw: Read Text File as Raw

## Description

Reads a text file as-is, with no conversion or text line splitting.

## Usage

    stri_read_raw(con, fname = con)

## Arguments

`con` | name of the output file or a connection object (opened in the binary mode)
`fname` | [DEPRECATED] alias of `con`

## Details

Once a text file is read into memory, encoding detection (see `stri_enc_detect`), conversion (see `stri_encode`), and/or splitting of text into lines (see `stri_split_lines1`) can be performed.

## Value

Returns a vector of type `raw`.

## Author(s)

Marek Gagolewski and other contributors

## See Also

The official online manual of stringi at https://stringi.gagolewski.com/

Gagolewski M., stringi: Fast and portable character string processing in R, Journal of Statistical Software 103(2), 2022, 1-59, doi:10.18637/jss.v103.i02

Other files: `stri_read_lines()`, `stri_write_lines()`