RTextTools (version 1.3.2)

read_data: reads data from files into an R data frame.

Description

Reads data from several types of data storage types into an R data frame.

Usage

read_data(filename, tablename = NULL, type = c("csv", "tab", "accdb", "mdb"),
...)

Arguments

filename

Character string of the name of the file, include path if the file is not located in the working directory.

tablename

Microsoft Access database only. The table name in the database.

type

Character vector specifying the file type. Options include "csv", "tab", "accdb", "mdb" to denote .csv files, text files, or Access databases.

...

Other arguments passed to read_data.

Value

• An data.frame object is returned with the contents of the file.

Examples

library(RTextTools)
data <- read_data(system.file("data/NYTimes.csv.gz",package="RTextTools"),type="csv")