SchemaOnRead is a CRAN package that provides an extensible mechanism for importing a wide range of file types into R as well as support for the emerging schema-on-read paradigm in R. The schema-on-read tools within the package include a single function call that recursively reads folders with text, comma separated value, raster image, R data, HDF5, NetCDF, spreadsheet, Weka, Epi Info, Pajek network, R network, HTML, SPSS, Systat, and Stata files. It also recursively reads folders (e.g., schemaOnRead(“folder”)), returning a nested list of the contained elements. The provided tools can be used as-is or easily customized to implement tool chains in R. This paper’s contribution is that it introduces and describes the SchemaOnRead package and compares it to related R packages.
SchemaOnRead, rio, readbitmap, foreign, testthat
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North, "SchemaOnRead: A Package for Schema-on-Read in R", The R Journal, 2016
BibTeX citation
@article{RJ-2016-019,
author = {North, Michael J.},
title = {SchemaOnRead: A Package for Schema-on-Read in R},
journal = {The R Journal},
year = {2016},
note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2016-019},
doi = {10.32614/RJ-2016-019},
volume = {8},
issue = {1},
issn = {2073-4859},
pages = {269-275}
}