title: Which function should I use to read unstructured text file into R?
body: <p><em>This is my first ever question here and I'm new to R, trying to figure out my first step in how to do data processing, please keep it easy : )</em></p>
  
  <p><strong>I'm wondering what would be the best function and a useful data structure in R to load unstructured text data for further processing.</strong> For example, let's say I have a book stored as a text file, with no new line characters in it.</p>
  
  <p>Is it a good idea to use <code>read.delim()</code> and store the data in a list? Or is a character vector better, and how would I define it?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you in advance.</p>
  
  <p>PN</p>
  
  <p>P.S.  If I use "." as my delimeter, it would treat things like "Mr." as a separate sentence.  While this is just an example and I'm not concerned about this flaw, just for educational purposes, I'd still be curious how you'd go around this problem.</p>