Call the appropriate function required to read a table file and return the table as a dataframe object.

read_file automatically detects the format of a file provided as filename and calls the appropriate function to read the table file.

Usage

read_file(filename, csvsep = ";", dec = ".", na.strings = "", sheet = 1)

Arguments

filename

(Character) Name or path of the table file to read. Can be of type CSV, XLS, XLSX, TSV, or TXT.

csvsep

(Character) separator used in CSV file (ignored for other file types).

dec

(Character) decimal separator used in CSV, TSV and TXT files.

na.strings

(Character) If a table cell contains the indicated string, it will be converted to NA.

sheet

(Numeric or Character) Number or name of a sheet in XLS or XLSX files (optional). Default: ";"

Value

A dataframe object with headers in the first row.