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Reads an input file, given a particular encoding, and possibly additional hints

Usage

safe_read_file(
  file,
  header = TRUE,
  sep = ",",
  quote = "\"",
  dec = ".",
  fill = TRUE,
  comment.char = "",
  strip.white = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

file

the file name

header

logical (default TRUE), whether or not a header line is expected

sep

character (defailt ,), field separator character

quote

character (default "), field quote character

dec

character (default .), decimal character

fill

logical (default TRUE), if rows have unequal lengtg, additional blank fields are added

comment.char

character (default is empty), if not empty, a comment character

strip.white

local (default TRUE), strips leading and trailing white space from fields

...

any additional parameters to utils::read.table

Value

a data frame