read.tab

This function is a slight (genome annotation friendly) variant of the built-in read.delim function in R. 
Two non-standard defaults have been set: stringsAsFactors=TRUE, quote="". 
An additional parameter "check.row.ct", triggering a count.fields call, has been added to further ensure the integrity of large data files.

The caroline R library contains dozens of functions useful
for: database migration (dbWriteTable2), database style joins &
aggregation (nerge, groupBy, & bestBy), data structure
conversion (nv, tab2df), legend table making (sstable & leghead),
automatic legend positioning for scatter and box plots (),
plot annotation (labsegs & mvlabs), data visualization
(pies, sparge, confound.grid & raPlot), character string manipulation (m & pad),
file I/O (write.delim), batch scripting, data exploration, and more.
The package's greatest contributions lie in the database style merge,
aggregation and interface functions as well as in it's extensive
use and propagation of row, column and vector names in most functions.

David Schruth

caroline

A Collection of Database, Data Structure, Visualization, and
Utility Functions for R

read.tab function

<dl><dt>file</dt>
<dd>the name of the file which the data are to be read from.</dd><dt>check.row.ct</dt>
<dd>logical: use 'count.fields' to independently verify the number of rows read.table reads into memory?</dd><dt>stringsAsFactors</dt>
<dd>logical: should character vectors be converted to factors?.</dd><dt>quote</dt>
<dd>the set of quoting characters.</dd><dt>header</dt>
<dd>boolean specifying if the first row serves as labels for the columns</dd><dt>...</dt>
<dd>other paramters passed to read.delim.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Read in a Tab Delimited File. — read.tab

<dl>

<dt>file</dt>
<dd>the name of the file which the data are to be read from.</dd>

<dt>check.row.ct</dt>
<dd>logical: use 'count.fields' to independently verify the number of rows read.table reads into memory?</dd>

<dt>stringsAsFactors</dt>
<dd>logical: should character vectors be converted to factors?.</dd>

<dt>quote</dt>
<dd>the set of quoting characters.</dd>

<dt>header</dt>
<dd>boolean specifying if the first row serves as labels for the columns</dd>

<dt>...</dt>
<dd>other paramters passed to read.delim.</dd>

</dl>

read.tab: Read in a Tab Delimited File.

Description

Usage

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