openFilesInDirectory: Loads and combines files in a folder that match a specified...

In kikapp/kikapputils: Frequently Used Functions (one line, title case)

Description

Returns either a list containing all loaded files, or a data frame containing merged loaded files

Usage

openFilesInDirectory(
  dir,
  match_string,
  merge = FALSE,
  sep = ",",
  na.strings = "NA",
  header = T,
  fill = T,
  quote = "\"",
  skip = 0
)

Arguments

dir	the directory in which to search for files
match_string	all files whose names grep match this string will be loaded
merge	T/F should loaded files be merged into a data frame
sep	field separator character
na.strings	a character vector of strings whic are to be interpreted as NA values
header	a T/F value indicating whether the file contains the names of the variables as its first line. If missing, the value is determined from the file format: header is set to TRUE if and only if the first row contains one fewer field than the number of columns.
fill	T/F If TRUE then in case the rows have unequal length, blank fields are implicitly added
quote	Character indicating characters to use for quote argument in read.table
skip	the number of lines of the data file to skip before beginning to read data

Value

a list or data frame containing load data from all files matching match_string in directory

kikapp/kikapputils documentation built on May 24, 2021, 10:41 p.m.