[R] How to read last (incomplete) line from gzfile()?

[Stephen Eglen]

Prof Brian Ripley writes:
 > I realize I didn't give a solution:
 > 
 > scan(con, "", sep="\n")
 > 

Thanks for this (and for correcting the help page); this works.  I
also found a workaround using read.table which also allows gzfile
connections with an incomplete last line.

Stephen