read_text_folder: Import all text files in a folder
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Import all text files in a folder
Description
Reads all text files in a folder and creates a list of pivot_table objects,
one from each file. Each file is expected to contain a pivot table. Each line
in a file corresponds to a row in a table; within each row, columns are
defined by a separator character. File name is included as part of each
object attributes.
Usage
read_text_folder(folder, sep = ";", encoding = "UTF-8")
Arguments
folder |
A string, folder name. |
sep |
Column separator character. |
encoding |
A string, encoding to be assumed for input strings. |
Details
When multiple files are handled, the file name may contain information
associated with the pivot table, it could be the table page information. In
order not to lose this information, it is always stored in each pivot_table
object.
Value
A pivot_table object list.
See Also
pivot_table
Other import functions:
read_excel_file(),
read_excel_folder(),
read_excel_sheet(),
read_text_file()
Examples
folder <- system.file("extdata", "csvfolder", package = "flattabler")
lpt <- read_text_folder(folder)
