sepguesser {ideal} | R Documentation

## Make an educated guess on the separator character

### Description

This function tries to guess which separator was used in a text delimited file

### Usage

    sepguesser(file, sep_list = c(",", "\t", ";", " "))

### Arguments

`file` | The name of the file which the data are to be read from
`sep_list` | A vector containing the candidates for being identified as separators. Defaults to `c(",", "\t", ";"," ")`

### Value

A character value, corresponding to the guessed separator. One of "," (comma), "\t" (tab), ";" (semicolon)," " (whitespace)

### Examples

    sepguesser(system.file("extdata/design_commas.txt",package = "ideal"))
    sepguesser(system.file("extdata/design_semicolons.txt",package = "ideal"))
    sepguesser(system.file("extdata/design_spaces.txt",package = "ideal"))
    mysep <- sepguesser(system.file("extdata/design_tabs.txt",package = "ideal"))

    # to be used for reading in the same file, without having to specify the sep

[Package ideal version 1.8.1 Index]