read.folder: Reads an entire folder using the read function of your choice

In michalmonselise/read.folder: Easily read whole folders using the read function of your choice.

Description

Reads an entire folder using the read function of your choice

Usage

read.folder(folder.path, read.function = read.csv, recursive = FALSE,
  exclude = NULL, ...)

Arguments

folder.path	The path of the folder
read.function	The function used to read the files. Do not surround in quotes. Deafults to read.csv
recursive	Whether we should look inside subfolders. Defaults to FALSE
exclude	Paths of all files we would like to exclude from reading (for example README files)

Value

This function returns the object (data.frame, data.table, etc) of your choice containing data from all files in the specified folder

Examples

read.folder("./path/to/folder/", read.function=fread)
read.folder("./path/to/folder/", exclude="./path/to/folder/README.txt", recursive=TRUE, header=FALSE)

michalmonselise/read.folder documentation built on May 22, 2019, 9:53 p.m.