Automatically detect line delimiters in a text file

This helper function was written expressly for set_physical to be able to automate its recordDelimiter argument.

Usage

detect_delim(path, nchar = 1000)

Arguments

path

(character) File to search for a delimiter

nchar

(numeric) Maximum number of characters to read from disk when searching

Value

(character) If found, the delimiter, it not, \r\n