Hello,
I don't believe that what you are asking for is possible but like Bert
suggested, you can do it after reading in the data.
You could write a convenience function to read the data, then change
what you need to change.
Then the function would return this final object.
Rui Barradas
Às 16:43 de 18/07/2020, H escreveu:
On 07/17/2020 09:49 PM, Bert Gunter wrote:
Is there some reason that you can't make the changes to the data frame (column
names, as.date(), ...) *after* you have read all your data in?
Do all your csv files use the same names and date formats?
Bert Gunter
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things into it."
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On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 6:28 PM H <age...@meddatainc.com
<mailto:age...@meddatainc.com>> wrote:
I have created a dataframe with columns that are characters, integers and
numeric and with column names assigned by me. I am using read.csv.sql() to read
portions of a number of large csv files into this dataframe, each csv file
having a header row with columb names.
The problem I am having is that the csv files have header rows with column
names that are slightly different from the column names I have assigned in the
dataframe and it seems that when I read the csv data into the dataframe, the
column names from the csv file replace the column names I chose when creating
the dataframe.
I have been unable to figure out if it is possible to assign column names
of my choosing in the read.csv.sql() function? I have tried various variations
but none seem to work. I tried colClasses = c(....) but that did not work, I
tried field.types = c(...) but could not get that to work either.
It seems that the above should be feasible but I am missing something?
Does anyone know?
A secondary issue is that the csv files have a column with a date in
mm/dd/yyyy format that I would like to make into a Date type column in my
dataframe. Again, I have been unable to find a way - if at all possible - to
force a conversion into a Date format when importing into the dataframe. The
best I have so far is to import is a character column and then use as.Date() to
later force the conversion of the dataframe column.
Is it possible to do this when importing using read.csv.sql()?
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Yes, the files use the same column names and date format (at least as far as I
know now.) I agree I could do it as you suggest above but from a purist
perspective I would rather do it when importing the data using read.csv.sql(),
particularly if column names and/or date format might change, or be different
between different files. I am indeed selecting rows from a large number of csv
files so this is entirely plausible.
Has anyone been able to name columns in the read.csv.sql() call and/or force
date format conversion in the call itself? The first refers to naming columns
differently from what a header in the csv file may have.
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