R: Load a file on the disk

input.file {iotools} | R Documentation

## Load a file on the disk

### Description

`input.file` efficently reads a file on the disk into R using a formatter function. The function may be `mstrsplit`, `dstrsplit`, `dstrfw`, but can also be a user-defined function.

### Usage

    input.file(file_name, formatter = mstrsplit, ...)

### Arguments

`file_name` | the input filename as a character string
`formatter` | a function for formatting the input. `mstrsplit` is used by default.
`...` | other arguments passed to the formatter

### Value

the return type of the formatter function; by default a character matrix.

### Author(s)

Taylor Arnold and Simon Urbanek

[Package iotools version 0.3-1 Index]