Read a data file by its extension — load_by

Reads a single input file, dispatching on its extension. CSV is read with utils::read.csv() (strings as character); RDS with base::readRDS(). Unsupported extensions and unreadable files raise an error that names the offending file.

Usage

load_by_ext(path)

Arguments

path: character; path to the file to read.

Value

The object stored in the file (typically a data.frame).

Examples

path <- tempfile(fileext = ".csv")
write.csv(data.frame(x = 1:3), path, row.names = FALSE)
load_by_ext(path)
#>   x
#> 1 1
#> 2 2
#> 3 3