Read a file

Read a file, the function chosen to read the file is dependant on the file path.

• .rds uses readr::read_rds().

• .csv and .gz use readr::read_csv(). Note that this assumes any file ending with .gz is a zipped CSV which isn't necessarily true!

• .parquet uses arrow::read_parquet().

Usage

read_file(path, col_select = NULL, as_data_frame = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

path

The file path to be read

col_select

A character vector of column names to keep, as in the "select" argument to data.table::fread(), or a tidy selection specification of columns, as used in dplyr::select().

as_data_frame

Should the function return a tibble (default) or an Arrow Table?

...

Addition arguments passed to the relevant function.

Value

the data a tibble