read.tables: Read and concatenate tables

In cbaumbach/miscFun: Miscellaneous functions

Description

Read and concatenate tables

Usage

read.tables(files, sep = NULL, ncore = 1L, header = TRUE,
  colClasses = "character", verbose = TRUE, check.names = FALSE,
  comment.char = "#", ...)

Arguments

files	Files with tables to be read and concatenated
sep	Field separator in input tables
ncore	Number of cores to use in parallel
header	See documentation of read.table
colClasses	See documentation of read.table
verbose	If TRUE, report progress while running
check.names	See documentation of read.table
comment.char	See documentation of read.table
...	Passed on to read.table

Details

If not explicitly specified, the field separator will be inferred from the first non-comment, non-empty line of one of the input files. Possible candidates are tab, comma, semicolon, single space. They will be tested in the above order. The first candidate found will become the field separator. The field separator must be the same for all input files.

Value

A data frame that results from concatenating all input tables.

Examples

## Not run: 
read.tables(paste0("table", 1:100, ".txt"), ncore = 10L)

## End(Not run)

cbaumbach/miscFun documentation built on May 13, 2019, 1:48 p.m.