to more easily read data with a 2nd row with units common to phx data

to more easily read data with a 2nd row with units common to phx data

read_phx(
  data,
  skip = 0,
  header = TRUE,
  sep = "auto",
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE,
  has_units = FALSE,
  fread = TRUE,
  data.table = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

data	the name of the csv
skip	rows to skip before header row
header	logical value indicating whether the file contains the names of variables as it's first line
sep	field separator character. With fread defaults to 'auto', else defaults to ","
stringsAsFactors	logical value whether to include string columns as factors
has_units	logical value whether has a units row below the header (eg phx nlme data)
fread	logical value. Use fread from data.table for much faster reading
data.table	logical value. When using fread, whether to return data.table (TRUE) or data.frame (FALSE)
...	additional arguments to read.csv functions

Value

data frame of read-in csv

Details

helpful function to handle situations where the second row is a units row as often seen with phoenix-style datasets

Examples

if (FALSE) {
read_phx("example.csv")
read_phx("example.csv", skip = 1) # will ignore 1st line, good for comment lines
}