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Read zip archive and unzip tab delimited files downloaded from SHARK

Source: R/shark_read.R
shark_read_zip.Rd

[Deprecated] This function is deprecated and has been replaced by read_shark().

Usage

shark_read_zip(zipname, delimiters = "point-tab", encoding = "latin_1")

Arguments

zipname

Path to the zip archive containing SHARK data (expects a file named shark_data.txt inside).

delimiters

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

encoding

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

Value

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

Details

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

Like shark_read(), this function is tolerant to encoding issues. It allows a user-specified encoding (cp1252, utf_8, utf_16, or latin_1), but also automatically detects the encoding from the file content. If the detected encoding does not match the specified one, the detected encoding is preferred. This ensures files with wrongly labeled or inconsistent encodings are still read correctly.