Read of a folder of files — read

read_folder() is a wrapper around lapply to read an entire folder of files into a list. A NULL is returned if the file is unable to be read.

read_folder(
  folder,
  read_function,
  pattern = NULL,
  .clean_file_names = TRUE,
  .basename = FALSE,
  .id = NULL,
  .recursive = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

folder: A folder path to read.
read_function: The function to use to read each file.
pattern: An optional regex. Only file names which match the regular expression will be read.
.clean_file_names: Logical to clean names into snake_case or not.
.basename: Logical to only keep the basename() of each file.
.id: Character. Optionally add an id variable to each table, named as this value.
.recursive: Logical to recursively load the folder.
...: Arguments passed to read_function.

A list of output from the read_function. A NULL is returned if the file is unable to be read.