fileWizard {tkWidgets}R Documentation

A function that import a text file into R

Description

Given a file name, this function imports the text file into R.

Usage

fileWizard(filename = "", fun = read.table, file = "file",
basic = c("header", "sep"))

Arguments

filename A character string for the name of the text file to be imported
fun An R function that is going to be used to read the file. Default to read.table
file A character string for the name of the argument to fun that defines the name of the file to be read
basic A vector of character strings for names of the arguments to fun that will have separate entry boxes on the widget to be produced. Default to "header" and "sep"

Details

This function is only partially finished and will be improved soon. It currently allows uesrs to view a given file and change the settings for header and sep arguments of read.table. A file will be read in based on the values of the two arguments and return.

Value

This function returns a data frame for the file read in.

Note

This function is part of the Bioconductor project at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to provide Bioinformatics functionalities through R

Author(s)

Jianhua Zhang

References

R News Vol. 1/3, September 2001

See Also

fileBrowser

Examples

if(interactive()) {
  # Only the interface is displyed as no real file is given
  fileWizard()  
}

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