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Read tab delimited files downloaded from SHARK

Source: R/shark_read.R
shark_read.Rd

[Deprecated] This function is deprecated and has been replaced by read_shark().

Usage

shark_read(filename, delimiters = "point-tab", encoding = "latin_1")

Arguments

filename

Path to file to be read.

delimiters

Character. Specifies the delimiter used to separate values in filename. Options are "point-tab" (tab-separated) or "point-semi" (semicolon-separated). Default is "point-tab".

encoding

Character. Specifies the text encoding of filename. Options are "cp1252", "utf_8", "utf_16", or "latin_1". Default is "utf_8". If an encoding mismatch is detected, the detected encoding is used.

Value

A data frame containing the parsed contents of the SHARK export file.

Details

Uses read_delim() to read tab-delimited or semicolon-delimited files with standardized export format from SHARK.

This function is robust to encoding issues: it accepts a user-specified encoding (cp1252, utf_8, utf_16, or latin_1) but also attempts to automatically detect the file encoding. If the detected encoding differs from the specified one, the detected encoding will be used instead. This helps in cases where the file encoding has been wrongly specified, mislabeled, or varies between SHARK exports.