fread_csv: Reads CSV files checking for factors

In lmguzman/MelissaFactors: Make factors less annoying

Description

Wrapped around base read.csv, fread_csv checks the number of levels of a factor when reading csv files. If the lenght of the levels is the same as the length of the variable, it will convert the variable to a character type. Otherwise it will leave it as a factor.

Usage

fread_csv(file, check.factor = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

file	File to be uploaded
check.factor	If check.factor = TRUE, then the function will check for the length of factor levels.
...	Name-value pairs of summary functions like read.csv()

Value

A data frame containing a representation of the data in the file

Examples

test1 <- factor(letters[1:10])
tf <- tempfile()
write.csv(test1, tf)

charreading <- fread_csv(tf, check.factor = TRUE)
str(charreading)

facreading <- fread_csv(tf, check.factor = FALSE)
str(facreading)

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