gather.files: \lifecycleexperimental

In evanmascitti/ecmfuns: A Compilation of My Own Personal R Functions

\lifecycleexperimental

Description

Prepare a set of files to be iteratively read into R

Usage

gather.files(dir = ".", extension = NULL, recursive = FALSE)

Arguments

dir	Relative path to directory where the files reside (includes the trailing /). For .Rmd files this begins at the same level as the .Rmd file, which is usually good but can be annoying when the file you need to read resides above the .Rmd file in the directory structure. In this case you can look one directory upward with ⁠/..⁠ or to the top-level directory with /.
extension	quoted file extension, accepts 3-letter extension with OR without a preceding "." Verify capitalization.
recursive	whether to search sub-directories

Details

This is a helper function to remove friction and reduce eyesore when reading multiple data files in one step. A base method with list.files() works fine but requires more arguments than I want to remember for this very common task. This wrapper cleans the path strings to assign nice names to the files as they are imported.

Output is easily piped to read.files() to read the files and compile them in a tibble. Because gather.files gives nice names to its elements, the list is more human-readable.

Value

A named character vector of file paths to read. The element names are the base file names with the file extension stripped.

Examples

 ## Not run: 
gather.files(dir = "data/raw_data/2020-10-25_Atterberg_limits",
extension= ".csv")
## End(Not run)

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