files2list: Load Multiple Data Files into one List

In sophiestallasch/multides: R Tools for the MULTI-DES Project

Load Multiple Data Files into one List

Description

These functions load multiple data files from a specified directory and save them into one list.

• rda2list() loads multiple .rda files

• dat2list() loads multiple .dat files

• csv2list() loads multiple .csv files

Usage

rda2list(.path = ".", .file_pattern = ".rda$", .recursive = FALSE)

dat2list(
  .path = ".",
  .file_pattern = ".dat$",
  .recursive = FALSE,
  .sep = ";",
  .dec = ".",
  .header = TRUE
)

csv2list(
  .path = ".",
  .file_pattern = ".csv$",
  .recursive = FALSE,
  .sep = ";",
  .dec = ".",
  .header = TRUE
)

Arguments

.path	A string indicating the path of the directory that contains the files to be loaded. The default is the current working directory.
.file_pattern	A regular expression to return the files that this regular expression matches. For rda2list() the default is to load all files ending with ".rda" For dat2list() the default is to load all files ending with ".dat" For csv2list() the default is to load all files ending with ".csv"
.recursive	A logical indicating whether to recurse into directories. The default is FALSE.
.sep	The field separator character. The default is a semicolon.
.dec	The decimal point character used in the files. The default is a point.
.header	A logical indicating whether the files have a column header.

Value

A list that contains the files in .path matching the expression specified in .file_pattern.

See Also

See also utils::read.table().

Examples

# load all .rda files in the current working directory into one list
rda2list()
# load all .dat files in the current working directory into one list
dat2list()
# load all .csv files in the current working directory into one list
csv2list()

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