readr_cols: Easy readr column specification
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Description Usage Arguments Details Value Examples

Shortcut-loaded convenience wrapper around cols.

1	readr_cols(...)

...

All arguments are passed to readr::cols with any character values first treated and processed as shortcuts for equivalent readr functions–i.e., readr::col_*, readr::parse_*. See details for a list of available shortcuts.

The following list of shortcuts can be supplied as character strings in place of readr col_* or parse_* functions:

l, lgl, logical
i, int, integer
d, dbl, double
c, chr, character
D, date
T, dt, dttm, datetime, POSIXct
f, fct, factor
n, num, number
?, gss, guess
_, -, skip

Column specification

## readr package must be installed
if (requireNamespace("readr"), quietly = TRUE) {
  ## create column specification
  readr_cols(
    .default = "?",
    id = "chr",
    is_good = "lgl",
    day = "date",
    timestamp = readr::col_datetime(format = "%m-%y-%d %H:%M:%S"),
    count = "integer",
    misc = "_"
  )
}