read_smart: A smart function for reading data files

In mkearney/smartread: Smart Read Data Files

Description

Reads data based on file extension

Reads in .rda files like any other data file would (outputs an object, which you can name whatever you want)

Usage

read_smart(x, ...)

read_rda(x)

Arguments

x	Name of file to read.
...	Other args passed on to read-in function, see details for more info.

Details

Here is the function logic

• csv = readr::read_csv

• rds = readRDS

• rda|Rdata = load

• xlsx = openxlsx::read.xlsx

• sav = haven::read_sav

• dta = haven::read_dta

• tsv = read.delim

• fst = fst::read_fst

• dt|data.table = data.table::fred

• txt|table = read.table

• html = xml2::read_html

• xml = xml2::read_xml

• json = jsonlite::stream_in

• yaml = yaml::read_yaml

Value

Info from file returned as R data object.

Examples

## save congress data as .rds, .csv, and .rda files
saveRDS(congress, "congress.rds")
save(congress, file = "congress.rda")
write.csv(congress, "congress.csv", row.names = FALSE)

## now read and view each file
(c1 <- read_smart("congress.rds"))
(c2 <- read_smart("congress.csv"))
(c3 <- read_smart("congress.rda"))

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