General purpose meta parsing function. parse_meta attempts to parse
a file based on its file extension.
Arguments
- file
String, file path.
- ...
Additional arguments passed to a parsing function based on file extension. See below.
- simplify_meta
Logical, attempt to simplify the metadata output. This uses
simplify_list. This can be useful if metadata is not tabular.
Details
Function supports xls, xlsx, csv, tsv, excel, json, and xlm extensions.
#' Extension-specific notes:
txt: sep Field separator character. defaults to comment = "#". comment The comment character used to separate (or "comment-out")
the metadata from the data. Only text that has been commented-out will be read. d_list Logical, is metadata stored as a description list (i.e. Field: value, value
format). If a colon (":") is used after the field name set this to TRUE.
xls, xlsx: range The cell range to read from (e.g. "A1:C5"). See
read_excel for more details.