read.directory: Bulk import data files

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Description

Read in each file at a path and then unnest them. Defaults to csv format.

Usage

read.directory(
  path = ".",
  pattern = NULL,
  reader = utils::read.csv,
  ...,
  reducer = NULL,
  recursive = FALSE
)

Arguments

path	a character vector of full path names
pattern	an optional regular expression. Only file names which match the regular expression will be returned.
reader	a function that can read data from a file name.
...	optional arguments to pass to the reader function (eg stringsAsFactors).
reducer	a function to unnest the individual data files. Use I to retain the nested structure.
recursive	logical. Should the listing recurse into directories?

Author(s)

Neal Fultz

References

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11433432/how-to-import-multiple-csv-files-at-once

nfultz/stackoverflow documentation built on Aug. 4, 2020, 5:31 a.m.