loadCSVtoP2distance: Load a CSV file into a matrix object

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Load a CSV file into a matrix object

Description

Reads a text file and converts it into the matrix object expected by p2distance().

Usage

loadCSVtoP2distance(
  path,
  header = TRUE,
  sep = "\t",
  dec = ".",
  quote = "\"",
  na.strings = "NA",
  fileEncoding = "",
  encoding = "unknown"
)

Arguments

path	The path of the file from which the data are to be read. Each row of the table appears as one line of the file.
header	A logical value indicating whether the file contains the names of the variables as its first line.
sep	The field separator character.
dec	The character used in the file for decimal points.
quote	The set of quoting characters. To disable quoting altogether, use quote = "".
na.strings	A character vector of strings to be interpreted as NA values.
fileEncoding	Character string: if non-empty, declares the encoding used in the file so the character data can be re-encoded. See the "Encoding" section of ?file.
encoding	Encoding to be assumed for input strings.

Details

The first column of the file is used to set the row names of the resulting matrix (typically the name of each spatial entity), and is then removed from the data itself. Internally this uses utils::read.table() to read the file.

Value

A matrix containing the data from the CSV file, ready to be passed to p2distance().

See Also

p2distance()

p2distance documentation built on Sept. 15, 2026, 5:07 p.m.