readCsvInputFile: Read CSV File Giving Column Descriptions

In KWB-R/kwb.utils: General Utility Functions Developed at KWB

Read CSV File Giving Column Descriptions

Description

Read CSV File Giving Column Descriptions

Usage

readCsvInputFile(
  csv,
  sep,
  dec,
  headerRow = 1,
  headerPattern = "",
  columnDescription = NULL,
  maxRowToLookForHeader = 10,
  stopOnMissingColumns = TRUE,
  fileEncoding = "UTF-8",
  encoding = "unknown",
  ...
)

Arguments

csv	full path to CSV file
sep	column separator
dec	decimal character
headerRow	number row in which the header (containing column captions) is found
headerPattern	pattern matching the header row. If headerPattern is given headerRow is not considered
columnDescription	list of column descriptors. The list elements are named with the name of the list elements being the names that shall be used in the returned data frame. Each list element is a list with elements match (pattern to be looked for in the header fields), ...
maxRowToLookForHeader	maximum number of rows to be considered when looking for the header row
stopOnMissingColumns	if TRUE (default) the program stops if not all columns defined in columnDescription are found
fileEncoding	encoding of the input file
encoding	passed to readLines, "Latin-1" or "UTF-8"
...	further arguments passed to read.table

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