| readDatasets {rpact} | R Documentation |
Reads a data file and returns it as a list of dataset objects.
readDatasets(
file,
...,
header = TRUE,
sep = ",",
quote = "\"",
dec = ".",
fill = TRUE,
comment.char = "",
fileEncoding = "UTF-8"
)
file |
A CSV file (see |
... |
Further arguments to be passed to |
header |
A logical value indicating whether the file contains the names of the variables as its first line. |
sep |
The field separator character. Values on each line of the file are separated
by this character. If sep = "," (the default for |
quote |
The set of quoting characters. To disable quoting altogether, use
quote = "". See scan for the behavior on quotes embedded in quotes. Quoting is only
considered for columns read as character, which is all of them unless |
dec |
The character used in the file for decimal points. |
fill |
logical. If |
comment.char |
character: a character vector of length one containing a single character or an empty string. Use "" to turn off the interpretation of comments altogether. |
fileEncoding |
character string: if non-empty declares the encoding used on a file (not a connection) so the character data can be re-encoded. See the 'Encoding' section of the help for file, the 'R Data Import/Export Manual' and 'Note'. |
Reads a file that was written by writeDatasets() before.
Returns a list of Dataset objects.
readDataset() for reading a single dataset,
writeDatasets() for writing multiple datasets,
writeDataset() for writing a single dataset.
dataFile <- system.file("extdata", "datasets_rates.csv", package = "rpact")
if (dataFile != "") {
datasets <- readDatasets(dataFile)
datasets
}