evanverse (version 0.3.7)

read_table_flex: Flexible and fast table reader using data.table::fread

Description

Robust table reader with auto delimiter detection for .csv, .tsv, .txt, and their .gz variants. Uses data.table::fread() and prints CLI messages.

Usage

read_table_flex(
  file_path,
  sep = NULL,
  encoding = "UTF-8",
  header = TRUE,
  df = TRUE,
  verbose = FALSE
)

Value

A data.frame (default) or data.table depending on df parameter.

Arguments

file_path

Character. Path to the file to be read.

sep

Optional. Field delimiter. If NULL, auto-detected by file extension.

encoding

Character. File encoding accepted by fread: "unknown", "UTF-8", or "Latin-1".

header

Logical. Whether the file contains a header row. Default: TRUE.

df

Logical. Return data.frame instead of data.table. Default: TRUE.

verbose

Logical. Show progress and details. Default: FALSE.