autoread: Autoguessing function for reading most common data formats

In bokov/tidbits: Various small utilities for simplifying data preparation and analysis

Autoguessing function for reading most common data formats

Description

Supported so far are: xls, xlsx, csv and most other delimited text formats, SPSS, Stata, and SAS.

Usage

autoread(
  file,
  na = c("", ".", "(null)", "NULL", "NA"),
  fixnames = function(xx) {     stats::setNames(xx, tolower(make.names(names(xx), unique
    = TRUE))) },
  file_args = list(),
  ...
)

Arguments

file	The name of a file you want to read into R
na	Vector of strings that should get translated to 'NA' upon import. Optional, defaults to a reasonable set of values.
fixnames	A function that normalizes column names after importing the data. If you want to leave them untouched, set this equal to 'identity()'. Optional, defaults to making them lower case, R-legal, and unique.
file_args	This is to easily pass project-level or script-level defaults in the form of an 'alist()' to whichever lucky function ends up winning the contest to read your file. Only names that match the formal arguments of your function will be used, the rest will be silently ignored. This way, you can pass some 'read_xlsx' specific arguments without worrying that something else will intercept them and error out.
...	Additional named arguments passed to this function will be added to those in 'file_args' overriding any that have matching names.

Value

A 'tibble'

bokov/tidbits documentation built on Jan. 26, 2024, 6:25 p.m.