read_csv {kim}

Read a csv file

Description

Read a csv file

Usage

read_csv(name = NULL, head = FALSE, dirname = NULL, ...)

Arguments

name

a character string of the csv file name without the ".csv" extension. For example, if the csv file to read is "myfile.csv", enter name = "myfile"

head

logical. if head = TRUE, prints the first five rows of the data set.

dirname

a character string of the directory containing the csv file, e.g., dirname = "c:/Users/Documents"

...

optional arguments for the fread function from the data.table package. Any arguments for data.table's fread function can be used, e.g., fill = TRUE, nrows = 100

Value

the output will be a data.table object, that is, an output from the data.table function, fread

Examples

## Not run: 
mydata <- read_csv("myfile")

## End(Not run)