read_table_flex: Flexible and fast table reader using data.table::fread

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Flexible and fast table reader using data.table::fread

Description

Robust table reader with auto delimiter detection for .csv, .tsv, .txt, and their .gz variants. Uses data.table::fread() and prints CLI messages.

Usage

read_table_flex(
  file_path,
  sep = NULL,
  encoding = "UTF-8",
  header = TRUE,
  df = TRUE,
  verbose = FALSE
)

Arguments

file_path	Character. Path to the file to be read.
sep	Optional. Field delimiter. If NULL, auto-detected by file extension.
encoding	Character. File encoding accepted by fread: "unknown", "UTF-8", or "Latin-1".
header	Logical. Whether the file contains a header row. Default: TRUE.
df	Logical. Return data.frame instead of data.table. Default: TRUE.
verbose	Logical. Show progress and details. Default: FALSE.

Value

A data.frame (default) or data.table depending on df parameter.

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