read_phx: to more easily read data with a 2nd row with units common to...

In PKPDmisc: Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Data Management Functions

Description

to more easily read data with a 2nd row with units common to phx data

Usage

read_phx(
  data,
  skip = 0,
  header = TRUE,
  sep = "auto",
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE,
  has_units = FALSE,
  fread = TRUE,
  data.table = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

data	the name of the csv
skip	rows to skip before header row
header	logical value indicating whether the file contains the names of variables as it's first line
sep	field separator character. With fread defaults to 'auto', else defaults to ","
stringsAsFactors	logical value whether to include string columns as factors
has_units	logical value whether has a units row below the header (eg phx nlme data)
fread	logical value. Use fread from data.table for much faster reading
data.table	logical value. When using fread, whether to return data.table (TRUE) or data.frame (FALSE)
...	additional arguments to read.csv functions

Details

helpful function to handle situations where the second row is a units row as often seen with phoenix-style datasets

Value

data frame of read-in csv

Examples

## Not run: 
read_phx("example.csv")
read_phx("example.csv", skip = 1) # will ignore 1st line, good for comment lines

## End(Not run)

PKPDmisc documentation built on April 14, 2020, 5:49 p.m.