Suite of Functions to Flexibly Read Data from Files

Documentation for package ‘reader’ version 1.0.6

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.