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sed $linenumber^' r filename' otherfile

You should find this explained in the sections of the manual and Duff's
paper where variables and `careting' are discussed.  (For non-English
speakers, `to caret' is not a real English verb, rather it is one that
Duff made up and comes from the name for the `^' character.)