auto_read: Automatic file reader
In dkrozelle/toolboxR: Collection of functions and scripts for bioinformatics.

Description Usage Arguments Value

Attempts to automatically recognize table type and import as tibble or data.table. Latest version incorporates *dots* to facilitate passing all possible options for each file reader type.

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auto_read(file, reader = "", stringsAsFactors = F,
  remove.empty.columns = F, remove.empty.rows = F, make.names.valid = T,
  make.names.unique = T, ...)

`file`	path to an tabular data file
`reader`	string, Specify which package to read in your table, options include: read_excel, read.delim, read.csv, fread. NOTE: fread option will return a data.table, all others return data frame.
`remove.empty.columns, remove.empty.rows`	logical, to remove columns or rows composed entirely of NA, "NA", or blank values
`make.names.valid, make.names.unique`	logical, uses base make.names function to clean table names and make unique.
`...`	Pass any file-type appropriate arguments on to their handler functions. e.g., readxl::read_excel(), read.delim(), read.csv()