In mkearney/smartread: Smart Read Data Files

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>",
  fig.path = "man/figures/README-",
  out.width = "100%"
)
library(smartread)

smartread

The goal of smartread is to provide a single function API for reading in data from common file types.

Installation

You can install the development version of {smartread} from Github with:

## install from github
devtools::install_github("mkearney/smartread")

Example

This is a basic example which shows you how to use read_smart()

## basic example dat
exdat <- datasets::mtcars

## save as multiple different file types
saveRDS(exdat, "exdat.rds")
save(exdat, file = "exdat.rda")
write.csv(exdat, "exdat.csv")

## now read and view the .rds file
head(c1 <- read_smart("exdat.rds"))

## now read and view the .csv file
head(c2 <- read_smart("exdat.csv"))

## now read and view the .rda file
head(c3 <- read_smart("exdat.rda"))

## cleanup (delete) data files
unlink(c("exdat.rds", "exdat.rda", "exdat.csv"))

mkearney/smartread documentation built on May 15, 2019, 3:20 p.m.