R: Create a source object.

datasource {readr} | R Documentation

## Create a source object.

### Description

Create a source object.

### Usage

    datasource(file, skip = 0, skip_empty_rows = FALSE, comment = "")

### Arguments

`file` | Either a path to a file, a connection, or literal data (either a single string or a raw vector). Files ending in `.gz`, `.bz2`, `.xz`, or `.zip` will be automatically uncompressed. Files starting with `http://`, `https://`, `ftp://`, or `ftps://` will be automatically downloaded. Remote gz files can also be automatically downloaded and decompressed. Literal data is most useful for examples and tests. It must contain at least one new line to be recognised as data (instead of a path) or be a vector of greater than length 1. Using a value of `clipboard()` will read from the system clipboard.
`skip` | Number of lines to skip before reading data.

### Examples

    # Literal csv
    datasource("a,b,c\n1,2,3")
    datasource(charToRaw("a,b,c\n1,2,3"))

    # Strings
    datasource(readr_example("mtcars.csv"))
    datasource(readr_example("mtcars.csv.bz2"))
    datasource(readr_example("mtcars.csv.zip"))
    ## Not run:
    datasource("https://github.com/tidyverse/readr/raw/master/inst/extdata/mtcars.csv")

    ## End(Not run)

    # Connection
    con <- rawConnection(charToRaw("abc\n123"))
    datasource(con)
    close(con)

[Package readr version 1.3.1 Index]