read_file: Read a Tabular Data File

In jesse-smith/coviData: COVID-19 Data Munging Tools for the Shelby County Health Department

Read a Tabular Data File

Description

read_file reads delimited- and Excel-type data files. The backend for delimited files is fread; the backend for Excel files is read_excel.

Usage

read_file(
  path,
  file_type = c("auto", "delimited", "excel"),
  type_convert = TRUE,
  msg = "Reading file..."
)

Arguments

path	A string indicating the path to the data file; will be expanded if necessary
file_type	A string indicating the type of file to read; only "delimited" and "excel" files are supported. The default is "auto", which determines the file type from the file extension.
type_convert	Should read_file() attempt to guess the data type of the columns after reading? Note: The default is TRUE for compatibility; want to transition to vroom::vroom() as backend and swap default to FALSE.
msg	A message to be displayed prior to beginning a file read; for use inside other functions

Value

A tibble containing the read data

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