rda.conversion.loadDataFile: Load data from RAW data file

In MarcoNiemann/kaggle_house: Analysing House Prices in Ames, Iowa and Build a Sales Price Prediction Model

Description

A function that loads raw data from a CSV file to a local variable.

Usage

rda.conversion.loadDataFile(directory, file, header = T, sep = ",",
  dec = ".", quote = "\"")

Arguments

directory	The directory in which the target file is located.
file	The file that should be loaded by this function.
header	boolean specifying whether the to-read-CSV has a header row or not. Defaults to TRUE.
sep	Character specifying the chr separating two data entries. Defaults to ,.
dec	Character specifying the decimal split chr. Defaults to ..
quote	Set of quoting characters. Defaults to "".

Details

The function first checks the existance of the given directory and file. In case both exist, the specified file will be loaded considering the loading parameters header, sep, dec and quote.

Value

data.frame containing the data present in the specified file.

Examples

 # Assuming the existance of directory 'dir' and file 'data.csv':
 KaggleHouse:::rda.conversion.loadFile(
     'dir', 'data.csv', header = T, sep = ";", dec = ".", quote = '\"'
 )

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