Read in StackOverflow pasted table-formatted data

A wrapper for read.table. Reads a table from text or from the clipboard and creates a data.frame from it.

soread(
  sep = "",
  header = TRUE,
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE,
  skipAfterHeader = NULL,
  out = "mydf"
)

Arguments

sep	character. Determines the field separator character passed to `read.table`.
header	logical. Determines whether the first row consists of names of variables.
stringsAsFactors	logical. Whether strings are converted to factors or remain character variables. Defaults to `FALSE`
skipAfterHeader	numeric. Some newer print methods print additional information just below the headers (for example, `tibble`s and `data.table`s). If `skipAfterHeader = TRUE`, the second line will be removed. If `skipAfterHeader` is a numeric value, those lines after the header row will be removed before reading the data.
out	character. Desired output object name. Defaults to `"mydf"`.

Value

A data.frame as read.table produces.

Details

For many questions at Stack Overflow, the question asker does not properly share their question (for example, using dput or by sharing some commands to make up the data). Most of the time, you can just copy and paste the text into R using read.table(text = "clipboard", header = TRUE, stringsAsFactors = FALSE). This function is basically a convenience function for the above.

The output of soread is automatically assigned to an object in your workspace called "mydf" unless specified using the out argument.

Note

By default, `stringsAsFactors` is `FALSE` which is different to the R default in R versions prior to 4.0.

Author

Ananda Mahto

Examples


if (FALSE) {
## Copy the following text (select and ctrl-c)

# A B
# 1 2
# 3 4
# 5 6

## Now, just type:

soread()
}