classify.ext {reader}

Classify file types readable by standard R I/O functions.

Description

Look for known file extensions and classify as binary, comma-separated, text format, or OTH=other; other files are assumed to be unreadable. To read other files, need to specify more types manually.

Usage

classify.ext(ext = NULL, more.txt = NULL, more.bin = NULL,
  more.csv = NULL, print.all = FALSE)

Arguments

ext

filenames or extensions to classify

more.txt

more extensions that should be treated as txt

more.bin

more extensions that should be treated as binary

more.csv

more extensions that should be treated as csv

print.all

setting to T, simply prints the list of supported ext

Value

returns the 4 way classification for each file/extension

Author(s)

Nicholas Cooper [e-mail]

See Also

get.delim

Examples

classify.ext(c("test.txt","*.csv","tot","other","rda","test.RDatA"))