Reads a text file and creates a pivot_table object. The file is expected to
contain one or more pivot tables. Each line in the file corresponds to a row
in a table; within each row, columns are defined by a separator character.
The file name is included as part of the object attributes.
Arguments
- file
A string, name of a text file.
- sep
Column separator character.
- encoding
A string, encoding to be assumed for input strings.
- define_page
A boolean, include file name as
pivot_tablepage definition.
Details
When multiple files are handled, the file name may contain information
associated with the pivot table, it could be the table page information. In
order not to lose this information, it can be stored in the pivot_table
object.
See also
Other import functions:
read_excel_file(),
read_excel_folder(),
read_excel_sheet(),
read_text_folder()
Examples
file <- system.file("extdata", "m4.csv", package = "flattabler")
pt <- read_text_file(file)