loadFile: Load File

In AndreMikulec/econModel: Meaningful Social and Economic Data from ALFRED and elsewhere

Description

Creates a data.frame from each file. Loads those data.frames into the "env" environment. Calls View() upon each data.frame (so the user may see the data).

Usage

loadFile(SubPathFileExt, HowFileName = "fileName", env, ...)

Arguments

SubPathFileExt	Location of the file. Required.
HowFileName	String. Function name to determine which part (or all of the FileName) to be the new R object name. Expected values are "fileName", "filePostFixName", or "filePreFixName".
env	Target environment to load data.frames. Default is the global environment (.GlobalEnv)
...	Dots passed.

Value

String. Name of the data.frame loaded. data.frames are loaded into the environment "env".

Examples

## Not run: 
e <- new.env()
loadFile(c(
  "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Stock Investor\\Professional\\setup.dbf",
  "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Stock Investor\\Professional\\Static\\si_isq.dbf"
), env = e)

eFST <- new.env()
DIR <- "C:\\DATA\\AAIISIPRO\\MONTHDATE\\18565"
FSTFiles <- paste0( DIR, "\\" , dir(DIR, pattern = glob2rx("*.FST")))
loadFile(FSTFiles, env = eFST)
str(as.list(eFST))

eDBF <- new.env()
DIR <- "C:\\DATA\\AAIISIPRO\\MONTHDATE\\18565"
DBFFiles <- paste0( DIR, "\\" , dir(DIR, pattern = glob2rx("*.DBF")))
loadFile(DBFFiles, env = eDBF)
str(as.list(eDBF))

## End(Not run)

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