Load data files from explicit paths

Read data from provided paths and return it as a list of data frames. Supports both .rds and .sas7bdat formats.

Usage

load_files(file_paths, reduce_memory_footprint = TRUE, encoding = NULL)

Arguments

file_paths

[character(1+)] Files to read. Optionally named.

reduce_memory_footprint

[logical(1)]

If TRUE, character variables are mapped into factors and floating-point variables are mapped into integers, as long as the conversion does not lead to loss of precision.

If FALSE, this function respects the original types returned by the underlying calls to base::readRDS and haven::read_sas.

encoding

[character(1) | NULL] Character encoding to use when reading .sas7bdat files. A value of NULL (the default) uses the encoding declared in the file. Ignored for .rds files.

Value

[list] A named list of data frames, where each name is either:

• the name associated to the element in the file_paths argument, or, if not provided...

• the name of the file itself, after stripping it of its leading path and trailing extension