Read CSV File Giving Column Descriptions

Read CSV File Giving Column Descriptions

Usage

readCsvInputFile(
  csv,
  sep,
  dec,
  headerRow = 1,
  headerPattern = "",
  columnDescription = NULL,
  maxRowToLookForHeader = 10,
  stopOnMissingColumns = TRUE,
  fileEncoding = "UTF-8",
  encoding = "unknown",
  ...
)

Arguments

csv

full path to CSV file

sep

column separator

dec

decimal character

headerRow

number row in which the header (containing column captions) is found

headerPattern

pattern matching the header row. If headerPattern is given headerRow is not considered

columnDescription

list of column descriptors. The list elements are named with the name of the list elements being the names that shall be used in the returned data frame. Each list element is a list with elements match (pattern to be looked for in the header fields), ...

maxRowToLookForHeader

maximum number of rows to be considered when looking for the header row

stopOnMissingColumns

if TRUE (default) the program stops if not all columns defined in columnDescription are found

fileEncoding

encoding of the input file

encoding

passed to readLines, "Latin-1" or "UTF-8"

...

further arguments passed to read.table