vim — How to read range of lines from a file into current buffer

Question

I want to read line n1->n2 from file foo.c into the current buffer.

I tried: 147,227r /path/to/foo/foo.c

But I get: \"E16: Invalid range\", though I

Answer 1

A range permits a command to be applied to a group of lines in the current buffer.

So, the range of read instruction means where to insert the content in the current file, but not the range of file that you want to read.