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 = "",
      skip_quote = TRUE
    )

### 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. To be recognised as a path, it must be wrapped with `I()`, be a string containing at least one new line, or be a vector containing at least one string with a new line. 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 2.0.2 Index]