load_datafile: read in a raw datafile from the downloaded data or the GitHub...
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load_datafile

R Documentation

read in a raw datafile from the downloaded data or the GitHub repo

Description

does checking for whether a particular datafile exists and then reads it in, using na_strings to determine what gets converted to NA. It can also download the dataset if it's missing locally.

Usage

load_datafile(
  datafile,
  na.strings = "",
  path = get_default_data_path(),
  download_if_missing = TRUE,
  quiet = TRUE
)

Arguments

`datafile`	the path to the datafile within the folder for Portal data
`na.strings`	a character vector of strings which are to be interpreted as `NA` values. Blank fields are also considered to be missing values in logical, integer, numeric and complex fields. Note that the test happens after white space is stripped from the input, so `na.strings` values may need their own white space stripped in advance.
`path`	either the file path that contains the PortalData folder or "repo", which then pulls data from the PortalData GitHub repository
`download_if_missing`	if the specified file path doesn't have the PortalData folder, then download it
`quiet`	logical, whether to perform operations silently