bcat_import_data: Import data

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Import data

Description

Utility to import multiple data sets from a directory into a named list.

Usage

bcat_import_data(location, extension, import_function, recursive = TRUE)

Arguments

location	Character. Directory from which to import data.
extension	Character. File extension to match (without ".").
import_function	Function used to read each file (e.g., readr::read_csv).
recursive	Logical. Search subdirectories? Default is TRUE.

Value

A named list of imported objects. Names are derived from filenames without their extensions, and each element contains the result returned by import_function() for one matching file.

Author(s)

Saannidhya Rawat

See Also

Other utilities: bcat_extract_metadata(), bcat_new_quarto(), bcat_setup_rmd(), bcat_source_rmd()

Examples

tmp_dir <- tempfile("rbearcat-data-")
dir.create(tmp_dir)
csv_path <- file.path(tmp_dir, "example.csv")
utils::write.csv(data.frame(x = 1:3, y = letters[1:3]), csv_path, row.names = FALSE)

datasets <- bcat_import_data(tmp_dir, "csv", utils::read.csv)
names(datasets)
datasets$example

unlink(tmp_dir, recursive = TRUE)

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