epi_read: Read files with a consistent convenience function

In AntonioJBT/episcout: Quickly Clean, Explore and Visualise Large Epidemiological Datasets

Read files with a consistent convenience function

Description

epi_read() reads files with a consistent convenience function. Wraps as.tibble and data.table's fread.

Usage

epi_read(
  input_name = "",
  na.strings = c(-Inf, "NULL", NULL, ".", "", "NA", "NaN", NA, "<NA>"),
  header = TRUE,
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE,
  strip.white = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

input_name	file to read as a string
na.strings	as for data.table::fread() with extended defaults
header	as for data.table::fread(), default is TRUE
stringsAsFactors	as for data.table::fread(), default is also FALSE
strip.white	as for data.table::fread(), default is also TRUE
...	pass any other data.table::fread() parameters

Value

A tibble

Note

Other parameters as specified by data.table::fread() You are probably better off using the standard read.csv(), data.table::fread() or other functions unless you are reading in several similarly constructed files. Files are read with data.table first and then converted to a tibble. Columns will be read as integer, numeric or character only. White space is stripped. Strings are read as character only. Assumes the first row is a header.

Author(s)

Antonio Berlanga-Taylor <\url{https://github.com/AntonioJBT/episcout}>

See Also

fread, as.tibble.

Examples

## Not run: 
super_data <- epi_read('super_data.tsv')

## End(Not run)

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