classify.ext: Classify file types readable by standard R I/O functions.

In reader: Suite of Functions to Flexibly Read Data from Files

Description

Look for known file extensions and classify as binary, comma-separated, text format, or OTH=other; other files are assumed to be unreadable. To read other files, need to specify more types manually.

Usage

classify.ext(ext = NULL, more.txt = NULL, more.bin = NULL,
  more.csv = NULL, print.all = FALSE)

Arguments

ext	filenames or extensions to classify
more.txt	more extensions that should be treated as txt
more.bin	more extensions that should be treated as binary
more.csv	more extensions that should be treated as csv
print.all	setting to T, simply prints the list of supported ext

Value

returns the 4 way classification for each file/extension

Author(s)

Nicholas Cooper [e-mail]

See Also

get.delim

Examples

classify.ext(c("test.txt","*.csv","tot","other","rda","test.RDatA"))

reader documentation built on May 2, 2019, 9:27 a.m.