R: Read in a Tab Delimited File.

read.tab {caroline} | R Documentation

## Read in a Tab Delimited File.

### Description

This function is a slight (genome annotation friendly) variant of the built-in read.delim function in R. Two non-standard defaults have been set: stringsAsFactors=TRUE, quote="". An additional parameter "check.row.ct", triggering a count.fields call, has been added to further ensure the integrity of large data files.

### Usage

    read.tab(file, check.row.ct = TRUE, stringsAsFactors = FALSE,
                   quote = "", header=TRUE, ...)

### Arguments

`file` | the name of the file which the data are to be read from.
`check.row.ct` | logical: use 'count.fields' to independently verify the number of rows read.table reads into memory?
`stringsAsFactors` | logical: should character vectors be converted to factors?.
`quote` | the set of quoting characters.
`header` | boolean specifying if the first row serves as labels for the columns
`...` | other paramters passed to read.delim.

### Value

a dataframe.

[Package caroline version 0.7.6 Index]