read.dat.headers: Reads the headers of a .dat file

In ptddatateam/dat_file_r_package: Common Tools for WSDOT Public Tranportation Data

Description

LOWER LEVEL FUNCTION - Not meant to be called on its own.

It returns a data frame with .dat data formatted for headers. All data, including survey data, will be in the data frame. This may be used to pull a list of all employer IDs in a .dat file.

Usage

read.dat.headers(Path, RemoveFiller = TRUE, OnlyFirstHeader = FALSE)

Arguments

Path	File path to a .dat file
RemoveFiller	A boolean indicating if the filler fields should be removed
OnlyFirstHeader	A boolean indicating if only the first line of the header should be returned. Useful for working with .dat files with only one employer ID.

Value

A data frame with information formatted using the header schema from a .dat file

Examples

read.dat.header("c:/example/example/datfile.dat")

ptddatateam/dat_file_r_package documentation built on Nov. 5, 2019, 1:56 a.m.