R: Read text file(s)

fread2 {bigreadr} | R Documentation

## Read text file(s)

### Description

Read text file(s)

### Usage

    fread2(input, ..., data.table = FALSE,
      nThread = getOption("bigreadr.nThread"))

### Arguments

`input` | Path to the file(s) that you want to read from. This can also be a command, some text or an URL. If a vector of inputs is provided, resulting data frames are appended.
`...` | Other arguments to be passed to data.table::fread.
`data.table` | Whether to return a `data.table` or just a `data.frame`? Default is `FALSE` (and is the opposite of data.table::fread).
`nThread` | Number of threads to use. Default uses all threads minus one.

### Value

A `data.frame` by default; a `data.table` when `data.table = TRUE`.

### Examples

    tmp <- fwrite2(iris)
    iris2 <- fread2(tmp)
    all.equal(iris2, iris)  ## fread doesn't use factors

[Package bigreadr version 0.2.2 Index]