rio

A Swiss-Army Knife for Data I/O

Thomas J. Leeper, Chung-Hong Chan, David Schoch, Jason Becker

Last update: 19 September 2023

Software version identifier: 0.5.29, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.2, 0.3.0, 0.4.0, 0.4.3, 0.4.5, 0.4.6, 0.4.8, 0.4.11, 0.4.12, 0.4.16, 0.5.0, 0.5.5, 0.5.9, 0.5.10, 0.5.15, 0.5.16, 0.5.26, 0.5.27, 0.5.30, 1.0.0, 1.0.1

Source code repository: https://github.com/cran/rio

Copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 2.0

Description

Streamlined data import and export by making assumptions that the user is probably willing to make: 'import()' and 'export()' determine the data structure from the file extension, reasonable defaults are used for data import and export (e.g., 'stringsAsFactors=FALSE'), web-based import is natively supported (including from SSL/HTTPS), compressed files can be read directly without explicit decompression, and fast import packages are used where appropriate. An additional convenience function, 'convert()', provides a simple method for converting between file types.