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fakeLines 11Examplesextend.pc(c(2,10),0.25) # extend X symmetricallyextend.pc(c(2:10),0.25) # extend the range of X# the following 3 examples extend X by 1% only in the positive directionextend.pc(c(25000,55000),.01,neg=FALSE) # standard positive extensionextend.pc(c(55000,25000),.01,neg=FALSE) # ranges in reverse order, not swappedextend.pc(c(55000,25000),.01,neg=FALSE,swap=TRUE) # ranges in reverse order, swappedfakeLinesCreate fake text for testing purposesDescriptionReturns randomized input as if reading lines from a file, like ’readLines()’ Can be used to test i/ofunctions, robustness.UsagefakeLines(max.lines = 10, max.chars = 100, pc.space = 0.35, delim = " ",can.null = TRUE)Argumentsmax.linesmax.charspc.spacedelimcan.nullmaxmimum number of fake lines to readmaximum number of characters per linepercentage of randomly generated characters that should be a delimiterwhat should the simulated delimiter be, e.g, a space, comma etc. If you wish notto include such either set the delimiter as "", or set pc.space=0.whether with probability 1/max.lines to return NULL instead of any lines oftext, which simulates an empty file, which for testing purposes you may want tobe able to handleValuea vector of character entries up ’max.chars’ long, or sometimes only NULL if can.null=TRUEAuthor(s)Nicholas CooperExamplesfakeLines() # should produce between zero and ten lines of random text, 35% of which are spaces