R: Suite of Functions to Flexibly Read Data from Files

# Suite of Functions to Flexibly Read Data from Files

## Documentation for package ‘reader’ version 1.1.0

- DESCRIPTION file

## Help Pages

reader-package | Suite of Functions to Flexibly Read Data from Files
cat.path | Simple and robust way to create full-path file names.
classify.ext | Classify file types readable by standard R I/O functions.
column.salvage | Change column name in different form to desired form.
conv.fixed.width | Convert a matrix or dataframe to fixed-width for nice file output
file.ncol | Find the number of columns (lines) in a file.
file.nrow | Find the number of rows (lines) in a file.
find.file | Search for a directory to add to the path so that a file exists.
find.id.col | Find which column in a dataframe contains a specified set of values.
force.frame | returns a dataframe if 'unknown.data' can in anyway relate to such:
force.vec | returns a vector if 'unknown.data' can in anyway relate to such:
get.delim | Determine the delimiter for a text data file.
get.ext | Get the file extension from a file-name.
is.file | Test whether a file exists in a target directory, or alternative list of directories.
n.readLines | Read 'n' lines (ignoring comments and header) from a file.
parse.args | Function to collect arguments when running R from the command line
reader | Flexibly load from a text or binary file, accepts multiple file formats.
rmv.ext | Remove the file extension from a file-name.
shift.rownames | Shift the first column of a dataframe to rownames() if appropriate.